his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

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

Music is important for one's health.