It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!