A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.