# Spiritual Sustenance Can Be Anything—Except a Person

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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.