Inspiration and genius -one and the same.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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.