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“If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)”
― Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
― Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
“Poirot", I said, "I've been thinking." "An admirable exercise, my friend. Continue it!”
― Peril at End House
― Peril at End House
“There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said. Words are less important, less effective than feeling. When you can sit in perfect silence with someone, you truly know how to communicate.”
― Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
― Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations
“If she had been asked to describe him, she would have said that he was the exact spot where the sea touches land, the precise moment of the final reach of the surf. That was the place and time of him. She would forever, then, seek shorelines and beaches.”
― Away
― Away
“I shall break my journey home at Istanbul and spend a few days exploring the city. All my life I have wanted to see Santa Sofia. And then, I shall treat myself to a sleeping car on the Orient Express. After all, at my age I deserve these little luxuries"... John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. In Michael Bakewell's full cast BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.”
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