All The Names

What the eye doesn’t see the heart doesn’t grieve over.

No life is without its lies.

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

You know the name you were given,

You do not know the name you have

[...], perhaps that's how you learn, by answering questions.

In order to protect the physical hygiene and mental health of the living, we usually bury the dead.

when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention,

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

That it’s possible not to see a lie even when it’s in front of us.

[...], old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, Who's that looking at me so sadly, he or she would say.

[...] the skin is only what we want others to see of us, underneath it not even we know who we are, [...]

[...], indeed nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.