
“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met.”
The Pillar of the Cloud http://www.bartleby.com/236/75.html, st. 3 (1833).
“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met.”
Malheureusement, ce portrait ne corrigera personne de la manie d’aimer de anges au doux sourire, à l’air rêveur, à figure candide, dont le cœur est un coffre-fort.
La cousine Bette http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Cousine_Bette_-_4#XXXVII._R.C3.A9flexions_morales_sur_l.E2.80.99immoralit.C3.A9 (1846), translated by Sylvia Raphael, ch. XXXVII: Moral reflections on immorality.
“Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile
You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile”
Theme song of Hail Hero! (1969), co-written with Jerome Moross
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
pg 233
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“All lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.”
At last.