Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

At first I was almost about to despair, I thought I never could bear it — but I did I bear it. The question remains: how?

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.