and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

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