This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.