The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.