Sentences (Phrases)

When the world is reduced to a single dark wood for our four eyes' astonishment,-- a beach for two faithful children,-- a musical house for one pure sympathy,-- I shall find you. Should there be here below but a single old man, handsome and calm in the midst of incredible luxury, I shall be at your feet. Should I have realized all your memories,-- should I be the one who can bind you hand and foot,-- I shall strangle you. * When we are very strong,-- who draws back? very gay,-- who cares for ridicule? When we are very bad,-- what would they do with us? Deck yourself, dance, laugh. I could never throw Love out of the window. * My comrade, beggar girl, monster child! O it's all one to you these unhappy women, these wiles and my discomfiture. Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair. * An overcast morning in July. A taste of ashes flies through the air;-- an odor of sweating wood on the hearth,-- dew-ret flowers-- devastation along the promenades-- the mist of the canals over the fields-- why not incense and toys already? * I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. * The upland pond smokes continuously. What witch will rise against the white west sky? What violet frondescence fall? * While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds. * Reviving a pleasant taste of Indian ink, a black powder rains on my vigil. I lower the jets of the chandelier, I throw myself on my bed, and turning my face towards the darkness, I see you, my daughters! my queens!