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

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

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

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.