“I must not get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way.” 

“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.” 

“The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.” 

“that in itself age doesn’t make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.” 

“write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.” 

“His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered...” 

“She felt that everything was made of glass, as fragile as a sigh” 

“She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.” 

“They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. ” 

“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.” 

“My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.” 

“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.” 

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something more We shall be happier than we were before.

“Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.” 

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” 

“Everything changes and nothing stands still.” 

“It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.” 

“For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.”