Christian Friedrich Hebbel. (№ 394468)

All immutable it becomes for me a limit, and every limit is a restriction. Marriage is a civil, physical, and in a great many cases, and a spiritual necessity. Mankind is necessary; but all necessity connected with rights. A person can avoid the necessity, if it has enough power to make by self-sacrifice to give up the rights; in this is its freedom. I can all but not what I need. It's partly in my nature, partly the nature of the artist at all. When talent gets married, it is always a miracle, as if the other person doesn't get married. Take for the highest proof of my respect for you that I reveal to you this dark side of myself; scary and dangerous, when one descends to the bedrock of your being; he will do well if you will never touch her, for down there, it is guarded by the darkness and madness.