Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

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.

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

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.