Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
Love is the symbol of eternity.
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.