I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

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

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.