One Hundred Years of Solitude

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That was the way he always was, alien to the existence of his sons, partly because he considered childhood as a period of mental insufficiency, and partly because he was always too absorbed in his fantastic speculations. — location: 209

His wife’s words conjured the sons into existence in the father’s world… The magic of words


But since the afternoon when he called the children in to help him unpack the things in the laboratory, he gave them his best hours. — location: 211