Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

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.

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

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.