"When a man is out of sight,..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.”

“Happiness wishes everybody happy.”

“I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.”

“Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.”

“In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.”

“If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?”

“From you have I been absent in the spring,When proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”