All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera

“He was begining to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them…”

“It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy lo…”

“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place …”

“Elle avait supplié Dieu de lui concéder au moins un instant afin qu'il ne s'en …”