Book: Mad of Chaillot

It was evil people. And the evil people vanish. They say that they live forever, and believe them, and they do everything to keep it that way. They are all careful when you need to protect yourself from the flu or get hit by a car. But no, naughty! Pride, greed, selfishness, heat them red hot, and when they are in a place where the earth keeps a kindness or pity, they evaporate.

The is no reason to be interested in reality.

It would be the Goncourt prize in the contest for the witches!

... To go, he does...

You got old like everyone who renounces memories who flout past their tracks.

Do all men. They love you because you're kind, smart, transparent, but as soon as I get the chance, leave you for women ugly, dull, muddy.

What does it mean to change someone? It means to leave him for another man.

Money is theft, fraud, I hate them, it's not my bread, but they love me. Apparently, I have attractive qualities. They don't like elegant manners, and I'm vulgar. They don't mind, and I am a perfect idiot. They don't like people who-and I'm a complete egoist, always fall in love with only himself.

Love money? My God, no! I love Orgy, they rush headlong, I love gambling, I love geranium, but not the money.

I lead an honest life, my morals irreproachable, hands are clean.

- But tea is good?
- Very useful for voice. Russian tea and drink. They are the most talkative people in the world.

Sometimes I wonder, I do not really if you're one of those women who live among the ghosts.

Do you think us so poor in spirit or so into childhood, what of the millions of beings, illusory or real, but hungry for companionship and conversation, none would like our society?

- ... Death is serious business.
- The death of a person is the same as it cost in life. Death is nothingness, not a dime.