People do not read stupidities with impunity.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.