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

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

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.

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.