To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it

If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.