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olec m #102803
Sep 03, 2009 1:49 AM

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can some1 post a topic about the quotations in the book of 100 years of solitude with par. and page.
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Nov 01, 2011 1:18 PM

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Important Quotes


"At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."



During the day, lying down to dream, he would secretly enjoy the memories of the night before ... he did not have to hide his tension, because that woman ... had nothing to do with the invisible power that taught him to breathe from within and control his own heartbeats, and that had permitted him to understand why men are afraid of death." (p. 29)

"'If I have to be something, I'll be a liberal,' he said, 'because conservatives are tricky." (p. 100)


"A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity ... her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like." (p. 403)

"Races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on Earth." (last page)

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