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

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.