If it were possible to raise the penis by means of a simple command, then sexual excitement would have no place in the world. - Milan Kundera

Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.