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She was not too tall, and of a voluptuous build, so that my eyes wandered amid many charms that hitherto had been strangers to them.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the remotest separation.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Misty dreamers had not a chance with her; since, though she did not talk - talking would have been altogether repugnant to her silent nature.

Oh, where have you gone, you blissful dreams of future happiness

There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

[E]ven in gay, easygoing, and carefree minds there may exist a presentiment of dark powers within ourselves which are bent upon our own destruction.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.

Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.