No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity.

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made