Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.