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One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez (SparkNotes Literature Guide) QUOTES

1 " For a long time she kept on smelling Pietro Crespi’s lavender breath at dusk, but she had the strength not to succumb to delirium. Úrsula abandoned her. She did not even raise her eyes to pity her on the afternoon when Amaranta went into the kitchen and put her hand into the coals of the stove until it hurt her so much that she felt no more pain but instead smelled the pestilence of her own singed flesh. It was a stupid cure for her remorse. For several days she went about the house with her hand in a pot of egg whites, and when the burns healed it appeared as if the whites had also scarred over the sores on her heart. The only external trace that the tragedy left was the bandage of black gauze that she put on her burned hand and that she wore until her death. "

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2 " he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling. "

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3 " Sentía una necesidad irresistible de amarla y protegerla. "

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4 " ...the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
--Musing of Col. Aureliano Buendía, a character in One Hundreds Years of Solitude "

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5 " Aparténse vacas, que la vida es corta "

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