No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.