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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

— Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981)

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

The Paris Review interview (1981)

But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

Living to Tell the Tale (2002)

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

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