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“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
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“It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by the simplest of all tests. No ruler would deliberately dress up in the recognized fetters of a slave; no judge would would appear covered with broad arrows. But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity. The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World

“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude

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