A person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her reunions. - Milan Kundera

If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.'
'They could be silent.'
'Like those two, at the next table?' Jean Marc laughed. 'Oh, no, no love can survive muteness.

... los amores son como los imperios: cuando desaparece la idea sobre la cual han sido construidos, perecen ellos también.