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A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.

Only the small things in life are important

And in the evening concealed fluorescent tubes light the room so evenly that it is no longer illuminated, it is a pool of luminosity.

Our living room had a clock in it that used to clear its throat before striking the hours. He is that harrumphing.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

When I leave the hotel the porter stands beside the revolving door, primed to greet me, like a talking fork.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

A puff of wind blew out their skirts, and they looked like two wandering flags.

That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

But the sound of despair is never pleasant; it sounds suspiciously like lying.

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world. 96

But the policeman radiates the calm and ease of a traffic light;

Taittinger pondered, but he was well aware that no amount of pondering had yet helped him to a sensible conclusion.

Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

He wore a gleaming top hat. He had a pomaded, uptwirled black moustache. He looked like a first-class funeral.

The woman who had escaped with her life now wept for the loss of her umbrella and was not at all grateful that her limbs were intact.

The calendrical harshness of nature is nothing to the boundless cruelty of history.

The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.

What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.

Dazzled by the luminosity of logic, she leans back, closing her eyes. She loses herself, she is lost.

Perhaps one can see one's destiny accomplished before one's very eyes and still feel hungry.

His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete.

Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

I think it's our unique product selection and the idea that everything we sell only can be purchased at Ikea.

On Sundays the world is as bright and empty as a balloon.