“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ”
“The thief’s widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.”
“Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]”
“Whoever does wrong, wrongs himself; whoever does injustice, does it to himself, making himself evil.”
“She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time.”
“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”