Jamie O'Brien

“No había ningún misterio en el corazón de un Buendía que fuera impenetrable para ella, porque un siglo de naipes y de experiencias le había enseñado que la historia de la familia era un engranaje de repeticiones irreparables, una rueda giratoria que hubiera seguido dando vueltas hasta la eternidad, de no haber sido por el desgaste progresivo e irremediable del eje.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad y un homenaje: Discursos de Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Fuentes

“I believe, Zorba, but can be wrong, that human beings are of three kinds: those whose purpose, as they say, is to live their own lives - to eat, drink, kiss, grow rich, become famous; next are those whose purpose is to live not their own lives but the life of humanity as a whole, since they feel that all human beings are one and the same in their struggle to enlighten, to love, and benefit others; finally there are those whose purpose is to live the life of the entire universe, since all people, animals, vegetables, and stars are one and the same, one essence engaged in the same struggle - namely, to transubstantiate matter into spirit."

Zorba scratched his scalp. "I'm thickheaded," he said. "I don't find the meaning very easily. Hey, Boss, how about dancing everything you said, so I can understand it?”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek