It's easier to lie to yourself when you say things out loud.

“As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre …”

“One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].”

“My last girlfriend was Greek,” said the Iceman. “The shit her family ate. You w…”

“I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.”