Solitude is independence.

I discovered the Che who scribbled love poems and coveted his solitude.

I wanted a place that I would have total silence and total solitude.

RA I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude.

JFF One time he told me that he had re read 100 Years of Solitude.

In your solitude, you summon up everything you tend to push away in your regular daily life.

The bays behind the eastern mountain are ideal to enjoy the sun and the beach in absolute solitude.

You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself.

He later chose to practice in the solitude of the mountains, after becoming disgusted by the unpleasant behavior of certain scholars.

The writer, caught up in the shelter of solitude, does not have much time to wander about. His neighborhood is his world, the geography of his calendar.

I know that the two are both masterpieces, but as far as things go, at this time after his death, 100 Years of Solitude is still winning...

And when We did appoint for Moses forty nights ( of solitude ) , and then ye chose the calf , when he had gone from you , and were wrong doers .

And when We did appoint for Moses forty nights ( of solitude ) , and then ye chose the calf , when he had gone from you , and were wrong doers .

We marry, for example, with great pomp and ceremony and expense to signal our departure from a life of solitude and misery and loneliness to one of eternal bliss.

On leaving prison he painted a series of one hundred works inspired by the work of Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude, which exposes in Valencia and Barcelona.

I discovered the Che who scribbled love poems and coveted his solitude. I wanted to sit with him for a beer and a cigarette to talk about his love for chess or his favorite books.

Amine Maalouf Identites Meurtrieres (for his take on dual culture) Samarcande (on Iranian literature and poetry), Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner 1000 Splendid Suns And the Mountains Echoed

JA The question is, if at any given moment Gabo says or is quoted particularly valuing Love in the Time of Cholera over 100 Years of Solitude. It could be, given that they are such different works.

Once, after talking about it, he said, No, it's just that 100 Years of Solitude is the fable but the true novel of mine is Love in the Time of Cholera . He liked the characters, he liked the story...

But I'll tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poised on the brink on dramatic change.

The solitude of the individual facing his faith alone, without collective illusions, and forced to do something with himself in the arid, noisy world tells us something important about the exiled world of modernity and its complex and contradictory problems.

The recognition to peace that is yet to come is unbelievable, to some. Angelica Casallas, from Colombia, compared the win to Macondo, a fictional town in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel was written by Colombia's most famous writer Gabriel García Márquez.

Now of course, this does not mean that we should all stop collaborating and case in point, is Steve Wozniak famously coming together with Steve Jobs to start Apple Computer but it does mean that solitude matters and that for some people it is the air that they breathe.