"Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods."

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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez