“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”
“Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.”
“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”
“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one”
“General Ivolgin, like all drunkards, was very emotional, and, like all drunkards who have sunk very low, he was much upset by memories of the happy past.”
“DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.”