One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.