She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Only God knows how much I love you.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.