History Quotes / OneHundredYearsOfSolitude

* "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..." - SignatureLine

* "He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude".

* "Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to [[TitleDrop one hundred years of solitude]] did not have a second opportunity on earth."

* "Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."

* "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

* "Ursula was the last in line. Her gloomy dignity, the weight of her name, the convincing vehemence of her declaration made the scale of justice hesitate for a moment. "You have taken this horrible game very seriously and you have done well because you are doing your duty," she told the members of the court. "But don't forget that as long as God gives us life we will still be mothers and no matter how revolutionary you may be, we have the right to pull down your pants and give you a whipping at the first sign of disrespect."

* "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

"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..." - SignatureLine

"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude".

"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to [[TitleDrop one hundred years of solitude]] did not have a second opportunity on earth."

"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

-> "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..." - SignatureLine

->"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude".

->"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to [[TitleDrop one hundred years of solitude]] did not have a second opportunity on earth."

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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude".

"Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to [[TitleDrop one hundred years of solitude]] did not have a second opportunity on earth."<--

when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to [[TitleDrop one hundred years of solitude]] did not have a second opportunity on earth."

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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..." - SignatureLine

--> "He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude".

-----> "He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude".