To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!

It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.