Themes
The days I spent with you were the only days I ever truly existed.
— Song Liling ‧ M. Butterfly
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- The Americans always love to hear how welcome they are.
- Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore -correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?
- Please come back. My audiences miss the white devil in their midst.
- And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense...and it's you.
- Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
- Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.