“The space between Heaven and Earth---is it not like a bellows?”

“May not the space between heaven and earth be compared to a bellows?”

“Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.”

“That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.”

“Love is the synthesis of contemplation and action, the meeting-point between heaven and earth, between God and humanity.”

“[Hers] was an existence between heaven and earth... beyond her stretched as far as the eye could see... an immense space of joys and passions...[But] did not love, like flowers, need a special soil, a particular temperature? Sighs by moonlight, long embraces, tears cried into yielding hands...the fevers of the flesh and the langours of tenderness...”