“I desire therefore I exist.”

“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”

“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”

“What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?”

“His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.”

“Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.”

“I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.”