No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

Only God knows how much I love you.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.