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"Colonel Aureliano Buendía scratched for many hours trying to break the hard shell of his solitude. His only happy moments, since that remote afternoon when his father had taken him to see ice, had taken place in his silver workshop. He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dungheap of glory to discover the privileges of simplicity years late."
— Dec 17, 2016 07:02AM
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"What worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it’s a natural death.” He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. “What worries me,” he went on, “is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you’ve ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.”
— Dec 17, 2016 06:52AM
M. Kirollos
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'"[José Arcadio Buendía] would spend the day walking through the house. "Incredible things are happening in the world," he said to Úrsula. "Right there across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments while we keep on living like donkeys."'
— Dec 17, 2016 06:50AM
