Sempiternele

“Her glass wings are gone.”
― Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle