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“I...confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.”
― Atlas
― Atlas
“Life can be very terrible," he said. "One needs much courage."
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Death in the Clouds
"To kill oneself? yes, I suppose one does."
"Also to live," said Poirot, "one needs courage.”
― Death in the Clouds
“Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break
And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his path
And cleanse his soul from sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May the Lord Christ enter in?”
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And peace of pardon win!
How else may man make straight his path
And cleanse his soul from sin?
How else but through a broken heart
May the Lord Christ enter in?”
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“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act...”
― The Nicomachean Ethics
― The Nicomachean Ethics
“Well, all right. Something in what you say, I suppose. Consider you treacherous worm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus. Love. Travers”
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