100 days of solitude gabriel garcia marquez

The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.One Hundred Years of Solitude ( Spanish: Cien años de soledad, American Spanish: ) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.' I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.' The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.' My heart has more rooms in it than a whore house.”īut when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.' Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.' I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.” Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. He recognised her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: 'Only God knows how much I loved you.''Īge has no reality except in the physical world.

Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP Photograph: Miguel Tovar/AP

100 days of solitude gabriel garcia marquez