I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .