法国是欧洲的灵魂。
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you'll never have to fear an unanticipated blow.
The writer is a man who has to live in the world but not be of it.
A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.