Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

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

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.

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

Not fooling around, not bothering nobody, just sitting here mending the Primus," said the cat with a hostile frown, "and, moreover, I consider it my duty to warn you that the cat is an ancient, inviolable animal.