It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

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.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

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

Only God knows how much I love you.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.