A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

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.

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.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.