“To the extent that heaven above is isolation, it seems to be hell. To the extent that hell below is a crowd, it apparently is heaven. Maybe we are condemned to an endless nagging sense of discomfort balanced against comfort, satisfaction against the itch to escape.”
― The Divine Farce
― The Divine Farce
“I don’t need cards to tell the future of a Buendía.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He was lost, astray in a strange house where nothing and no one now stirred in him the slightest vestige of affection.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I felt a surge of grief, I, who had never known men, as I stood in front of this man who had wanted to overcome fear and despair to enter eternity upright and furious.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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