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The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness.

That cemetery had the attraction of a playground for me.

...the devil's hour, two o'clock on a summer afternoon--the siesta hour.

You drink a language, you speak a language, and one day it owns you;

Nobody's granted a final day, just an accidental interruption in his life.

The sun was overwhelming, like a heavenly accusation.

Technically, the killing itself is due either to the sun or to pure idleness.

And afterward, therefore, everybody bent over backward to prove there was no murder, just sunstroke.

Mama's still alive today.

Good God, how can you kill someone and then take even his own death away from him?

She lied not from a desire to deceive but in order to correct reality and mitigate the absurdity that struck her world and mine.

Mother, death, love -- everyone shares, unequally, those three poles of fascination.

I didn't want to kill time. I don't like that expression. I like to look at time, follow it with my eyes, take what I can.

In my head, every voice corresponds with a woman, a time of life, a concern, a mood, or even the kind of wash that's going to be hung out that day.

you get offered the best liquors after your death, not before.