That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

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

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.