Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

This soup tastes like windows

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.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.