As to the pretty girls who went past, from the day on which I had first known that their cheeks could be kissed, I had became curious about their souls. And the universe had appeared to me more interesting.[Pour les belles filles qui passaient, du jour où j’avais su que leurs joues pouvaient être embrassées, j’étais devenu curieux de leur âme. Et l’univers m’avait paru plus intéressant.]

Source:Part Two, Vol. II: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
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