Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.