Book: Childhood

I for the first time in my life has changed in love and the first time I experienced the sweetness of this feeling. I was encouraged to change worn-out feeling the usual devotion on a fresh sense of love, full of mystery and suspense. Moreover, at the same time, to love and to love means to love twice as strong than before.

Not going even through those bitter trials which lead adults to caution and coldness in the relationship, we deprived ourselves of the pure enjoyment of tender baby attachment one only a strange desire to emulate big.

Those who have experienced shyness, you know that this feeling increases in direct relation to time, and resolution decreases in inverse proportion, that is: the more it goes on the state that made it compelling and the less remains for determination.

Will return if ever that freshness, carelessness, need for love and the power of faith possessed as a child? What time could be better when the two best virtues - innocent gaiety and a boundless need for love - were the only motives in life?

She quitted life without regret, did not fear death, and welcomed it as a blessing. Say this often, but how seldom do happen! She could not be afraid of death because he died with faith and fulfill the gospel law. Her whole life was pure, unselfish love and dedication.
Well! if her beliefs could be better, her life directed to a higher purpose, is this pure soul less worthy of love and amazement?
She made the best and greatest thing in this life - she died without regret and fear.
She was buried at her request near the chapel, which stands on the grave of the mother. Overgrown with nettles and thistles mound under which it lies, fenced by a black grille, and I will never forget from the chapel to approach this grille and put a prostration.
Sometimes I silently stop between the chapel and a black grille. In my soul suddenly awakened painful memories. I think, Providence is just connected me to those two beings in order to make me regret them my life long?..

It seems to me that a smile is what is called the beauty of the face: if the smile adds charm to the face, the face is beautiful; if she's not cheating, it commonly; if it spoils it, then it is wrong.