Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

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

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

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.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.