Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

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

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.