Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but...

She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price.

Is there just one single love in a lifetime? Are all our lovers ― from the first to the last, including the most fleeting ― part of that unique love, and is each of them...

Por lo que a las novelas largas se refiere, salvo por algunas excepciones, me mostraba bastante desconfiado. Pero ‘Jean-Christophe’ -de Romain Rolland-, con su empecinado individualismo, sin mezquindad alguna, fue para mí una saludable revelación....