“My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid.”
“I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination. Even when I can recall them, I find it hard to believe that my dreams were just like that: they were so strange and so remote from life.”
“I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.”
“So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.”
“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”
“So tell me, what is our ending? Will it be beautiful? So beautiful? Will my life find me by your side? 'Cause your love is beautiful, so beautiful.”