Personne ne peut t'être plus étranger que la personne que tu as aimée jadis.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting