I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Loving is half of believing.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.