“It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.”
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”
“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”
“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
“Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.”
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
“I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.”
“She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.”
“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”
“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”
“Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.”
“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .”
“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
“To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.”
“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”
“The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.”
“Necessity has the face of a dog.”
“For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”
“I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.”
“In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.”
