Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth; they were born in the bosom… - Alfred de Musset

إن في معرفة ما يمكن أن يقع لخطرًا، لأن الفكر يتجاوز الإمكان بافتراضاته، وليس القول بإمكان وقوع أمر كالقول إنه لا بد واقع، وما التأكد إلا أول عضة للكلب المستأسد.

Je n'avais vécu que par cette femme ; douter d'elle, c'était douter de tout ; la maudire, tout renier ; la perdre, tout détruire.

P 27

Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!