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“She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of infe...”
“Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.”
“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of view will determine that. ...”
“The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.”
“I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?”
“Walking on a path of uncertainties, Shuffling on the probabilities of uncertainties, Waging on the possibilities of uncertainties, Waiting for the occurrences of uncertainties,Solving the mysteries...”
“I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of course, if this were a detective story, there'd have been a convenient shower exactly an hour before...”
“Weall of uswant to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries to grab at something greater, to live a heroic life, if only for a day or a week or ...”
“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real ...”
“I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named Jose, had just poured me another drink, and I was having one of those rare mom...”
“In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple”
“I could go crazy on a night like tonightWhen summer's beginning to give up her fightAnd every thought's a possiblilityAnd the voices are heard but nothing is seenWhy do you spend this time with meM...”
“In fact-Dr. Sheppard!”
“You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.”
“Por que en las epocas oscurasse escribe con tinta invisible?Why in the darkest agesdo they write with invisible ink?”
“Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.Sherlock Holmes”
“It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...”
“Those who fail to understand mystery are doomed to crack it”
“I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Ple...”
“To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamins terms, to be lost is to be fully...”
