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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. the dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Life In The World... Was Nothing More

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. the dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
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