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Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes: Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
         

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.


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Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
         



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