I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

There had never been a death so foretold.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.