As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

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.

The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

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

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.