"...whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ours…"

"This hunger for novelty — which makes sensuous love equally changeful and rapacious, which makes us seek the same emo…"

"Barbusse is a fine man, but unfortunately a poor performer. He allowed himself to be so completely taken in by the Bo…"

"There is nothing between the paradise dreamed of and the paradise lost. There is nothing, since we always want what w…"

"For some moments there had been outlined within me the tragic shape of the cry which at last came forth. It was a sor…"

"Two sensuous lovers are not two friends. Much rather are they two enemies, closely attached to each other. I know it,…"

"She sighs for the thought she has. She would like to be silent, but she must speak. "We don't love each other any mor…"

"I hear no more sounds. Marie has finished. She comes up beside me. We have sought each other and come together as oft…"

"All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well."

"I take her hand, as I did before. I speak to her, rather timidly and at random: "Carnal love isn't the whole of love.…"