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Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Goodreads rating 4.10. …the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. [p. 205] … and once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. [p. 341] Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared...

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