...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond 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.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
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An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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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.
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Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.
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