Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

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.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.