“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh”
― The House of the Spirits
― The House of the Spirits
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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