But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you