As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

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.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

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

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

Reasons get forgotten.

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