True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?…Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.