“The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.”

“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”

“...thanks to the unwanted privilege of being the oldest employee.”

“But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long.”

“The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .”

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”