Hakiki hayatta ebedi ve mutlak aşklar aramaya kalkışmak, şehir meydanlarında Venüs kadar güzel kadınlar aramaya yahut da bülbüllerin Beethoven'ın sen… - Alfred de Musset

L'amour était traité comme la gloire et la religion : c'était une illusion ancienne.
(P 10)

A mulher que quer rejeitar responde apenas não. A mulher que explica quer que a convençam.

During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation. Conceived between battles, reared amid the noises of war, thousands of children looked about them with dull eyes while testing their limp muscles. From time to time their blood-stained fathers would appear, raise them to their gold-laced bosoms, then place them on the ground and remount their horses.