Book: Smoke taste

In the dark, you feel loneliness especially acutely.

There is something good in every person.

Mothers always think about their children.

What else is God for if not to distract ourselves from the quagmire in which we are mired?

Each mountain has its own gorge.

Those who are too happy about a clear day will find it a hundred times harder to endure bad weather.

The strongest suspicions of this kind were awakened in me by his appearance: a freckled face and - I beg your pardon, reverend - red hair, a clear sign of a treacherous nature.

A decent person is distinguished from all others by the quality of his writing instruments.

Sometimes a person from the very beginning is so unlucky that you do not want to, but you will act rashly.

God knows, I have known enough men to say with certainty: all of them, barely tearing themselves away from their mother's breasts, begin to shamelessly lie.