Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
Every birth is a getting to know.
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.