One Hundred Years of Solitude

had he renounced a certain
victory because of fatigue, as
everyone had thought, but
that he had won and lost for
the same reason, pure and
sinful pride. She reached the
conclusion that the son for
whom she would have given
her life was simply a man
incapable of love. One night
when she was carrying him in
her belly she heard him
weeping. It was such a
definite lament that José