The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.
The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.
there are no nationalities in heaven.
Words express only the feelings we know already.
that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.