The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.