They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.