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

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

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

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.