This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind