When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.

When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.

When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.

When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved.