A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.