"It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.Lygiai taip gyvenime keiAiasi ir mA«sA3 A¡irdis, ir tai skaudA3⁄4iausia; taAiau patiriame ta skausma tik skaitydami knygas, vaizduotA-je; tikrovA-je jos keitimasis, kaip ir kai kuriA3 gamtos reiA¡kiniA3 vyksmas yra toks lA-tas, kad nors ir galime konstatuoti kiekviena atskira bA«sena, paties keitimosi pajusti nepajA-giame."