Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.