Olena

“It is amazing what women in love will do”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“There, the sublime, unreachable mysteries of the Universe are haggled over by poor finite minds who cannot call their lives their own. There, nation wars against nation, creed against creed, soul against soul. Alas, fated planet! how soon shalt thou be extinct, and thy place shall know thee no more!”
― Marie Corelli, Delphi Collected Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)

“Now thou dost believe — henceforth thou must love! Love alone can pass yon flaming barrier — love alone can gain for thee eternal bliss. In love and for love were all things made — God loveth His creatures, even so let His creatures love Him, and so shall the twain be drawn together.”
― Marie Corelli, Delphi Collected Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)

“Leave me with my life of the imagination. Your petty pestering, your details of real life, which all upset me to some degree, would drag me down from heaven. Each person dies as best he may; my wish is not to think of death except in my own way.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black