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

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

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Do not allow me to forget you

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.