The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.
Ahora no es momento de pensar en lo que no tienes. Piensa en lo que puedes hacer con lo que hay.
Everything about him was beautiful, with the sole exception of his jaws.
When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst.
Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.
I had no feeling for him. He did not seem to have anything to do with me. I felt no feeling of fatherhood.
Then several women had put themselves out to be nice to him, and his horizons had all shifted.
It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.
Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
You ought to write, he told himself. Maybe you will again some time.
Nessuno dovrebbe mai restar solo, da vecchio.
We all ought to make sacrifices for literature.
Wondeful how one loses track of the days up here in the mountains.
Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.
That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other.
If there were God, never would He have permitted what I have seen with my own eyes.
To hear him talk of it, you would never know how very good it was, except that he had the shyness about it that all non-conceited writers have when they have done something very fine, and I hoped he would get the book quickly so that I might read it.
I love your beard,” Catherine said. “It’s a great success. It looks so stiff and fierce and it’s very soft and a great pleasure.