I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.