It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

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

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.