A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.