Je regardais, à la lumière de la lune, ce front pâle, ces yeux clos, ces mèches de cheveux qui tremblaient au vent, et je me disais: "Ce que je vois là n'est qu'une écorce.
In the moonlight I looked at his pale forehead, his closed eyes, his locks of hair that trembled in the wind, and I said to myself: “What I see here is nothing but a shell.