>>6850551There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
A sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich. For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air. Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
