Georges Rodenbach

“Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...”

“There are women whose love only ends with death.”

“The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.”

“The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.”

“As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave … overtook him with unwanted intensity.”