Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.