One Hundred Years of Solitude

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The anxiety was baseless. If anyone had become harmless at that time it was the aging and disillusioned Colonel Aureliano Buendia,

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Remedios went over and asked some questions about the fish that Aureliano could not answer because he was seized with a sudden attack of asthma.

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Don Apolinar Moscote, the benevolent ruler whose...

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The Italian ... dealt with Amaranta as with a capricious little girl who was not worth taking seriously.

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no effort at conciliation was made.

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Aureliano scolded him like a child and he adopted a contrite air.

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Her eternal smile seemed to have been brought on by the credulity of her customers, who accepted as something certain an establishment that did not exist except in the imagination, because even the tangible things there were unreal:

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He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men.

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Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something.

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Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Ursula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray.

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Amaranta looked after him with a loving diligence.

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that answer planted an enigma in Fernanda's heart that she was never able to clarify.

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He needed a little time to convince her about such a strange expedient,

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the lethargy of siesta time

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They were so much alike and so mischievous during childhood that not even Santa Sofia de la Piedad could tell them apart.

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With an exasperating parsimony he took down the chests, opened them, and placed on the table, one by one, seventy-two gold bricks, Everyone had forgotten about the existence of that fortune.

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a prodigious variety of puddings, meringues, and cookies,

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...the old soldier grew indignant with the servile excitement of the people and he realized that something had changed in the makeup of the men since the days when they would leave their wives and children and toss a shotgun on their shoulders to go off to war.

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He spent the night awake, tormented by the pain of his sores.