"For years we couldn't talk about anything else. Our daily conduct, dominated then by so many linear habits, had suddenly begun to spin around a single common anxiety. The cocks of drawn would catch us trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that had made absurdity possible, and it was obvious that we weren't doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but because none of us could go on …
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…in the context of my life this quote is commenting on how sometimes we are so unable to accept mysteries. Also, similar to the characters in the novel, who all share the guilt for the death of Santiago Nasar, because none of them actually did anything useful to prevent the murder, the novel tells me that in life I should sometimes take the responsibility to do something instead of thinking that other will do it.