To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

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.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

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