Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
There is always something left to love.
Time was not passing. . . it was turning in a circle.
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
Nobody knew who I was.
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance. . . has seeped down into the lowest publications. . . . Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.