Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

I think I missed my calling. I should have been an interior decorator.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.