[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

"Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.

Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.