"Pascal, my son, taken from us at the age of fourteen months by a tragic accident. His face was round and rosy, his hair fair, hands small and plump. My child's death, when it happened, almost killed me. Now I found him again, as a smiling little boy in the magical frame of this otherworldly garden. He stumbled toward me in a rush, his little legs still not used to walking.Tears of joy streamed from my eyes and a deep, warm feeling of happiness flowed through me. (...)  I let out a final scream, opened my eyes, and knew I was still alive.... If at times I feel weak or depressed, I think back on the kingdom of the dead. I shut my eyes, and the luminous life that was revealed to me comes back as an unforgettable reality." a proposito dell'infarto che ebbe nel 1971 e che gli fece credere di aver visto il paradiso.

(Daniel Gélin, all'anagrafe Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin, attore e poeta; Angers, 19 maggio 1921 – Parigi, 29 novembre 2002)