- Yaman: Love is like trade. A good love must fulfill two obligations: First, never loose, keep what you have. Second, never stake everything on one card. You musn't risk love in it's entirety, you must keep some reserves, just in case. If you don't do that, you become the other person's slave, and believe me, the other person becomes sick of his slave.
- Yaman: Our baths ladies and gentlemen are famous throughout the world. When you were still in the dark middle ages, we lived in a world of pleasures and voluptuousness.
- Yaman: Love is a game which brightens our lives. To really do that, it's caresses must last. It must pervade everything just as a perfume does.
- [last lines]
- Desideria: Good-bye, my desires. Good-bye, children I can never have. Good-bye, friends I didn't love. Good-bye, lovers who denied me friendship. Everything is over. I don't know in which world I belong. It all comes down to the same. A humming which from now on will mark my hours of solitude. It will be sweet to die from this memory... although I don't know who to thank for it.