One Hundred Years of Solitude

against any living thing since
the beginnings, including
man himself, to such an
extent that just as an instinct
for reproduction was
attributed to humankind, so
there must have been another
one more definite and
pressing, which was the
instinct to kill cockroaches,
and if the latter had
succeeded in escaping human
ferocity it was because they
had taken refuge in the