“Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.”

“For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.”

“That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.”

“L'homme est ainsi, cher monsieur, il a deux faces : il ne peut pas aimer sans s'aimer.”

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”

“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”