Eleven Minutes Quotes
"But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning."
"Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds."
"I have discovered the reason why a man pays for a woman: he wants to be happy."
"The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves."
"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure."
"When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side."
"If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself."
"I am the woman who gives birth and she who never procreated. I am the consolation for the pain of birth."
"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them."
"Smile and accept the compliment, perhaps with a slightly shy look."
"Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life."
"I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body."
"However important Maria thought love was, she did not forget the advice she was given on her first night."
"All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that’s a lie: freedom only exists when love is present."
"Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness."
"The world revolved around something that only took eleven minutes."
"Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don’t know."
"Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other."
"Everyone knows how to love, because we are all born with that gift."
"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone."
"Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace."
"The only thing that brings us any peace is being together."
"Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally."
"We all do the same thing: it’s part of the initiation of every human being in search of his or her other half; these things happen."
"When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
"Every woman, at least once in her life, has to go to the temple of the goddess Ishtar and give her body to a stranger."
"The art of sex is the art of controlled abandon."
"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion, and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved."
"True, no one wants to suffer, yet nearly everyone seeks out pain and sacrifice, and then they feel justified, pure, deserving of the respect of their children, husbands, neighbors, God."
"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything."
"The greatest pleasure isn’t sex, but the passion with which it is practiced."
"Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not."
"Without an orgasm, the energy disperses, travels to the brain, not letting her think of anything but going all the way."
"I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance."
"But then she thought: He might want to visit faroff mountains! And she was afraid, afraid that she would never feel the same way about any other bird."
"If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realised that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body."
"Always making plans for the future, and always be surprised by the present."
"It was strange, for some reason, she was feeling rather sad; perhaps because it was still another two weeks before she would leave."
"‘In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over." Well, I say that there isn’t an ounce of truth in it.'"
"She had lived for nearly a year in a small town, like so many other small towns in the world, and if it hadn’t been for the architecture peculiar to the place and the excessive number of banks, it could have been the interior of Brazil."
"‘Now you have everything you could possibly want.’ However, a strange transformation began to take place."
"It wasn’t prostitution, or Switzerland or money - it was Ralf Hart. Although she had never acknowledged it to herself, deep down, she would like to have married him."