The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!

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So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity.

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live in the expectation of extraordinary experiences: from books, from people, from journeys, from events, from what tomorrow has in store. But not you. You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.