In late medieval times, cutting off someone’s nose was the prototypical act of spite.
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― The Discourses
― The Discourses
“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
― The Interpretation of Dreams
― The Interpretation of Dreams
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