I must not feel bound to ignore something today because I rejected it in the past. Books that seem to contain nothing worthwhile when I first read th… - Eugène Delacroix

One should always be desiring or hoping for something. When one can hope for that which one desires, one enjoys the greatest happiness of which our thinking apparatus is capable. To obtain what one has been desiring is the first step to the depths of sadness and even pain, from which one can never emerge. The sea still enchants me; I linger for three or four hours at a time on the jetty or at the edge of the cliffs. Impossible to tear oneself away. If I could lead such a life for a certain time, coupling it with some interesting occupation, I should enjoy excellent health.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture. (1 September 1859)

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.