I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.