To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.