Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

Lovers remain in the dark, working hard to keep out daylight.

Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.