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While superfluity engenders disgust, appetite is but whetted when fruit is forbidden.

A sin that's hidden is half forgiven.

He who is wicked and held to be good, can cheat because no one imagines he would.

Do as we say, not as we do.

It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.

A kissed mouth doesn't lose its freshness, for like the moon it always renews itself.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.

“What did you expect?” he murmured. “Time passes.”

“That’s how it goes,” Úrsula said, “but not so much.”

When she said it she realized that she was giving the same reply that Colonel Aureliano Buendía had given in his death cell, 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.

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

My own heart would have concealed it from me, for failure to love is almost like murder and I would have been incapable of inflicting such a blow on anyone.