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“I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken away our food and water, and we're slowly dying, little by little...?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“but I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just
enough to live with.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
enough to live with.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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