The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.

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.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.