“The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening.”

“If the crow has to be shoved down your throat; maybe you should just let it fly.”

“But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.”

“- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!”

“I have found my voice again and the art of using it...”

“That lovely voice; how I should weep for joy if I could hear it now!”

“look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...”