Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

We men are the slaves of prejudice,’ he had once said to her. ‘But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will...

The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been surprised that he had not seen him at the...

t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirredthe certainty of death in the depths of one’s...