Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities to survive.
The most important thing I learned to do after the age of forty was to say no when it is no.
It puzzles me as much to think that God exists as it does to think that God doesn't exist.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of thwarted loves.
The wisdom comes to us when it is no longer useful.
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell the tale.
At every moment of my life, there is a woman who leads me by the hand through the darkness of a reality that women know better than men and in which they navigate better with fewer lights.
There is no medicine that can cure what happiness cannot cure.
I never reread my books because it scares me.
No, I don't wish success upon anyone. It happens to you like it happens to mountaineers, who struggle to reach the summit, and when they do, what do they do? They descend, or try to descend discreetly, with as much dignity as possible.
Love is as important as food. But it doesn't nourish.
The writer writes their book to explain to themselves what cannot be explained.