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.
The memory of the heart erases bad memories and magnifies the good ones, and thanks to that artifice, we manage to cope with the past.
One must be unfaithful, but never disloyal.
No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.
The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them and knowing you can never have them.
Human beings are not born forever on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life compels them to give birth to themselves again and again.
The secret to a good old age is nothing more than an honest pact with solitude.
The most important thing I learned to do after the age of forty was to say no when it is no.