“if i had to choose between breathing or loving you, i would say 'i love you' with my last breath”

“If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you”

“For a moment i thought i had died and gone to heaven. Now i see that i am very much alive, and heaven has been brought to me”

“if beauty were time, you'd be eternity”

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innume...”

“I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are fac...”