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“It were better far to sail forever in the night of blindness, with sense and feeling and mind, than to be thus content with the mere act of seeing. They have the sunset, the morning skies, the purple of distant hills, yet their souls voyage through this enchanted world with a barren stare.”
― Helen Keller, The World I Live In

“You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one’s mind.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Italian Girl

“Poirot’s incurable habit of making a mystery out of nothing never failed to irritate me.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

“Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely. The English murderer who disposed of his wives in succession by drowning them in their baths was a case in point. Had he varied his methods, he might have escaped detection to this day. But he obeyed the common dictates of human nature, arguing that what had once succeeded would succeed again, and he paid the penalty of his lack of originality.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links