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

"By what right does carnal love say, "I am your hearts and minds as well, and we are indissoluble, and I sweep all alo…"

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

"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.…"

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

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

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

"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…"

"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…"