She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

“Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les M…”

“This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut…”

“The aim to which I have aspired for so many years, my nightly dream, the object…”

“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, t…”