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“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”
“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”
“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”
“but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.”
“To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.”
“Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.”
“It is far too late for bloodless hands.”
“Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”
“Do we really mean it when we say in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, unless you shame me or disappoint me? What is the cost of ...”
“The reader is the final arbiter.”
“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general...”
“- Escute mais isso. Por outro lado, foras jovens, frescas, sucumbem em vo por falta de apoio, e isso aos milhares, e isso em toda parte! Cem, mil boas aes e iniciativas que poderiam ser implementad...”
“The devils agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?”
“Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believ...”
“From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit th...”
“There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because be...”
“As a rule, I had murder in my mind. That day, I had it in my heart.”
“Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.”
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves m...”
“And when he got through I felt for the first time that there had really been a war and that the man I was listening had been in it and that despite his bravery the war had made him a coward and tha...”
