Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.