Not at all, Doctor, I am at most a figure of comedy, and I do not owe even that to my own efforts, but to Don Juan, because only against the historical background of his tragic gaiety can you to some extent perceive the comic sadness of my womanizing existence, which without this gauge would be nothing but gray banality in a tedious setting."
Bai zera, doktoresa, oneneko kontuan komediaren pertsonaia naiz, eta hori ere ez da nire merituagatik, On Juanen merituagatik baizik, bere poz tragikoaren hondo historikoan bakarrik ohar zaitezke-eta, nola edo hala ohartu ere, nire emakumezale-existentziaren tristura komikoaz: existentzia hori, puntu konparagarri hori gabe, ez litzateke arruntkeria gris eta hondo aspergarri baizik.