Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved

“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grot…”

“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virt…”

“Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words…”

“For with love there is no middle course: it destroys, or else it saves. All hum…”