One Hundred Years of Solitude
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" follows the Buendía family over several generations in the fictional town of Macondo, blending magical realism with historical events. The novel explores themes of solitude, fate, and the cyclical nature of history, as the family's fortunes rise and fall amid love, war, and supernatural occurrences. Ultimately, it reflects on the inescapable nature of time and the legacy of one's ancestors.
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
The secret of happiness is to look at all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil that you have in your spoon.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
The line between good and evil is not so clear, and it is in our nature to be both.
There is no greater misfortune than dying alone.
The world was so recent, that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.
Time is not a line, but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
Life is a series of deaths and rebirths.