Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that they furnished the total, victory; he was...
If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-s...
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...
It is nothing to die. It is dreadful not to live.
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter no...
Los que padecéis porque amáis, amad más aún. Morir de amor es vivir
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and know...
The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
She talked thus, bent double, shaken with sobs, blinded by tears, her neck bare, clenching her hands, coughing with a dry and short cough, stammering very feebly with an agonised voice. Great grief is...
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated by a sense of the dark reality of existence. It seemed as if there were experience in this dawning be...
He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.
We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they fail.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
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