"Four Phases of Love" is a beautiful work on what love is and how it progresses. It is written in a unique style by Paul Heyse, the winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Excerpt

"At the open window, which looked out into the little flower-garden, stood the blind daughter of the village sacristan, refreshing herself in the cool breeze that swept across her hot cheeks; her delicate, half-developed form trembled, her cold little hands lay folded in each other upon the window-sill. The sun had already set, and the night-flowers were beginning to scent the air."