One Hundred Years of Solitude

she was disturbed by her
beauty, for it seemed a
contradictory virtue to her, a
diabolical trap at the center of
her innocence. It was for that
reason that she decided to
keep her away from the
world, to protect her from all
earthly temptation, not
knowing that Remedios the
Beauty, even from the time
when she was in her mothers
womb, was safe from any
contagion. It never entered