Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.