"If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus."
"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."
"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."
"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it."
"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."