In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
Silence is the garment of light.
The past is a sorry country.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.