The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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

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