Necessity has the face of a dog.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

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

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.