Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.