Henri Crémieux credited as playing...
- Orphée: Your café amuses me. It thinks it's the center of the universe.
- L'éditeur: It is.
- L'éditeur: The princess is very beautiful and very elegant. She's not from here, but she needs to be among us. Here is her review.
- Orphée: Every page is blank?
- L'éditeur: It's called "Nudism".
- Orphée: It's absurd.
- L'éditeur: Less absurd than if it were full of absurd writing. No excess is absurd.
- L'éditeur: I'm no longer in the battle. I gave up writing at 20. I had nothing new to say.
- L'éditeur: Orphée, your gravest fault is knowing just how far to go too far.
- Le commissaire: You were saying, sir, that this phrase is a poem. No one should know better than you.
- L'éditeur: Orphée sent me the texts yesterday morning. I found them quite astonishing. I showed them to my friends.
- The Poet: I noticed that one of them - quite an astonishing one - reminded me of something.
- Le commissaire: I believe this is the text: "The bird sings with its fingers". I quote without prejudice.
