I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.

Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Biliyorum. Bana tutku verecek herhangi bir şeye ya da kimseye artık rastlamayacağımı biliyorum. Birisini sevmeye kalkışmak, önemli bir işe girişmek gibidir, bilirsin. Enerji, kendini veriş, körlük ister. Hatta başlangıçta bir uçurumun üzerinden sıçramanın gerektiği bir an vardır. Düşünmeye kalkarsa atlayamaz insan. Bundan böyle artık bu gerekli sıçrayışı yapmayacağımı biliyorum.

Понимаешь, начать кого-нибудь любить - это целое дело. Нужна энергия, любопытство, ослепленность... Вначале бывает даже такая минута, когда нужно перепрыгнуть пропасть: стоит задуматься, и этого уже не сделаешь. Я знаю, что больше никогда не прыгну.

Esa noche creí que había perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca más podría reírme ni perseguir una ilusión. Pero nunca más es mucho tiempo.

There is no passion in your life, my son. You have never loved a woman, nor hated a man, nor pitied a child. You have withdrawn yourself too long and you are a stranger in the human family. You have asked nothing and given nothing. You have never known the dignity of need nor gratitude for a suffering shared. This is your sickness. This is the cross you have fashioned for your own shoulders. This is where your doubts begin and your fears too – because a man who cannot love his fellows cannot love God either.

But I no longer had a taste for anything, a wish for anything, a love for anybody, a desire for anything whatever, any ambition, or any hope.

For passion must, with youth, expire.

It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

En anéantissant les désirs, on anéantit l'âme, & tout homme sans passion n'a en lui ni principe d'action, ni motif pour se mouvoir.