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“We cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.”
― Italo Calvino

“Your relationship with objects is selective, personal; only the things you feel yours become yours: it is a relationship with the physicality of things, not with an intellectual or affective idea that takes the place of seeing them and touching them. And once they are attached to you, marked by your possession, the objects no longer seem to be there by chance, they assume meaning as elements of a discourse, like a memory composed of signals and emblems.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“A week of love, and gone again
Such happiness so quickly over.
Eight days of bliss are worth the pain,
But hours of love should last forever,
Should last forever, last forever.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“You leave me for the paths of glory,
But my heart will follow you all the way.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Do you remember our sweet life
When we were so young, we two,
And had in our hearts no other desire
Than to be well dressed and be in love
When by adding your age to mine
We couldn't reach forty years between us
And, in our humble little home
Everything, even in winter, seemed spring?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I was a beggar, and you charitable
I face fleeting kisses to your cool round arms
Do you remember our countless joys
And all those shawls turned to rags?
O' from our shadow-filled hearts what sighs
Flew off into the limitless skies!”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To save yourself by means of what has ruined you, that is the masterpiece of great men.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consumption.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The act of love, for instance, is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again.”
― Khassan Baiev