But Valentine, Why Despair, Why Always Paint

Be Kind. Aim For My Heart.

For In Those Tacit Understandings Which Maintain The Bond Of Family Union, The Mother Is Really The Mistress Of Her Daughter Only Upon The Condition Of Continually Presenting Herself To Her As A Model Of Wisdom And Type Of Perfection.

Within Six Months, If I Am Not Dead, I Shall Have Seen You Again, Madam--even If I Have To Overturn The World.

I Do Not Cling To Life Sufficiently To Fear Death.

I Have Been Taken By Satan Into The Highest Mountain In The Earth, And When There He Said He To Me, ‘child Of Earth, What Wouldst Thou Have To Make Thee Adore Me?’ I Replied, ‘listen, I Wish To Be Providence Myself, For I Feel That The Most Beautiful, Noblest, Most Sublime Thing In The World, Is To Recompense And Punish.