- Adrien: In all sincerity, I think I serve mankind better by taking it easy than by working. It's true. It takes courage to not work.
- Adrien: We are always someone else's slave. I find less dishonor in living at a friend's house, than in being paid by the State. Today, most people do useless work. Three quarters of all activities are parasitic. I'm not a parasite, the bureaucrats, the technicians are.
- Haydée: I found a definition for Haydée. She's a collector! Haydée, if you sleep around without premeditation you are the lowest of the low. The atrocious ingenue. But, if you collect in a consistent way, with obstinacy, it's a plot, things are entirely different.
- Daniel: Yes, but she collects badly.
- Haydée: I'm not a collector.
- Adrien: Don't say that. It's your only quality.
- Haydée: You're completely wrong. I'm searching. I'm searching to find something.
- Daniel: The more girls a guy has, the more he's suspect. The important thing is not to be liked. It flatters me. It's nice not to be in her collection.