Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

 

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
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A statement made in the last months of his life, occasionally said to be his last words, and portrayed as such in The General in His Labyrinth (1990) by Gabriel García Márquez, as translated by Edith Grossman, p. 267

 

Simon Bolivar

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