If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.
A bottle of wine was good company.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.