“الساعة الثالثة عشرة تعود ... وهي أيضًا الأولى، ودائمًا الوحيدة، - أو هي البرهة الوحيدة، فهل أنتِ ملكة، يا أنت! الأولى أو الأخيرة؟”

“Moi ? C'est une image que je poursuis, rien de plus.”

“Water drinkers perceive nothing but the crude and material appearance of things, while intoxication, on the contrary, dulls the eyes of the body and brightens those of the soul.”

“La pensée se glace en se traduisant en phrases.”

“I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?”

“En cherchant l'oeil de Dieu, je n'ai vu qu'un orbiteVaste, noir et sans fond...”

“What is madness...to go on platonically loving a woman who will never love you.”