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“He did not believe that the woman existed who could resist her curiosity about half a year of almost daily letters when she did not even know the color of ink they were written in, but if such a woman existed, it had to be her.”

“…he was desperate to find the hidden road in the past that would bring him relief. For that was what he needed: to let his soul escape through his mouth”

“The night was over, for her did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon”

“He could not avoid it: whenever he found himself on the edge of catastrophe, he needed the help of a woman”

“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”

“….he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia”