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
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city, He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans.”
― The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
― The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
“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
“Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
― The Interpretation of Dreams
― The Interpretation of Dreams
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