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respite;
wiry,
pogrom,
cramped,
upholstered
“Paupers
incunabula,
You shouldn’t regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.
Thus do I take you, to have and to hold, for the most wondrous and terrible of times, for the best and the worst of times, by day and by night, in sickness and in health. For I love you with all my heart and swear to love you eternally, until death do us part.
We know little about love. Love is like a pear. A pear is sweet and has a distinct shape. Try to define the shape of a pear.
draught.
After the compulsory air kisses or unpleasantly weak handshakes, after the insincere smiles and even less sincere, although well-concocted, compliments, followed a brief and tediously banal conversation about nothing.
deeds
kitsch.
The pathetic—ridiculous—attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy.
But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.
“A coward,” he declared with dignity, when he’d stopped coughing and had got his breath back, “dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds cowards in contempt.”
machicolations.
Do not forget that even in receiving gifts there should be moderation.
comeuppance.
They were children of the time of contempt. And they had nothing but contempt for others. For them, only force mattered. Skill at wielding weapons, which they quickly acquired on the high roads. Resoluteness. Swift horses and sharp swords.
