Joy is the reflex of terror.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.