“Ama bardamn dibinde biram lksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalksam; en iten ve en katksz acm, aybal gibi, hem bir yn et hem gepgeni bir deriyle ve insann iine dokunan slak, ama ktlk dolu ...”

“People. You must love people. Men are admirable. I wantto vomitand suddenly, there it is: the Nausea”

“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”

“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. The...”

“certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent...”

“What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night...”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”