Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled - inevitably - it's the way with everything human.
I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.
What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.