“People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life...”

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

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...”

“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”

“He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.”

“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”