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Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns–Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell– their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept. Galway Kinnell
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Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns–Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell– their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept. Galway Kinnell
I had to learn – since I’m divorced now and everyone is like, ‘Oh my God, you’re single, what’s going on?’ – that if I don’t like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I’m getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have … Read more
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and … Read more
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and … Read more
Both looked back then on the wild revelry…and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It’s like a million eyes are looking at you and you don’t really know … Read more
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. Gabriel Garcia Marquez