The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

Only God knows how much I love you.

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

How strange women are.