He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.