"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder."

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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez