“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.”

“I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me”

“I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”

“I was born the day you kissed me,died the day you left me,but lived for the time that you loved me”

“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”

“I am going to die of love....daroga....I am dying of love .... That's how it is... I loved her so! And I love her still...daroga.....and I am dying of love for her, I tell you! if you knew how beautiful she was when she let me kiss her...It was the first ...time, daroga, the first time I ever kissed a woman.. Yes, alive... I kissed her alive.... And she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead!”