"The secret of a good old age is simply an honourable pact with solitude"

 

CARTAGENA DE INDIAS COLOMBIA

 "He [Aureliano II ] 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 that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
 - Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, One hundrer years of Solitude 
Garcia Marquez, Colombian Nobel prize.