Spiritual Sustenance Can Be Anything—Except a Person

The most classic line from One Hundred Years of Solitude:

“A person’s spiritual sustenance can be music, books, exercise, work, mountains and rivers, the sea—anything but another person.”

Note: This quote is widely circulated online in Chinese as being from One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it does not actually appear in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel. It is a misattributed quote. If you need a faithful translation of an actual passage from the book, I can help with that too.