"Memories which someday will become all beautiful..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.”

“There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.”

“The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.”

“I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.”

“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”

“The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.”

“I was adored once too.”

“Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.”

“It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.”