But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash, and the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad.
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.
It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means
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 mu
The world must be all fucked up,” he said then, “when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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.
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Những điều có ý nghĩa trong cuộc sống không phải là điều gì xảy đến với bạn mà là bạn nhớ gì và bạn nhớ nó như thế nào.
