Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

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.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.