No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
You can’t eat hope,? the woman said. You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,? the colonel replied.
Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Never stop smiling, not even when you’re sad. Someone might fall in love with your smile.
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
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.
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
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.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.