Finally, and most of all, words failed him.
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.