The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

Do not allow me to forget you

Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

How strange women are.