To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.
Nothing is ever so good or so bad in reality as it is in the anticipation.
I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!.
Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.
To a woman who knows her own mind men can only be a minor consideration.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.