“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“رویدادها و تجربه ها به شرطی که از آن ها عقده نسازی، آموخته ها و دانسته ها، هرچند ممکن است فراموششان کرده باشی، مجموعه ی آن ها در ذهن تو معرفتی به جای می گذارد تا با هوشیاری و با عینک خودت دنیا را ببینی. اما تا آخر عمر زاده ی اعور کسانی که به تو چیز یاد داده اند نمان و طوطی آن ها نشو. خودت در شنیده ها و آموخته ها و خوانده هایت شک کن. شاید من فسیل بشوم. شاید امسال من اشتباه کرده باشم”
― جزیره سرگردانی
― جزیره سرگردانی
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