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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have...more

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My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains.

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Un archeologo è il miglior marito che una donna possa avere: più lei diventa vecchia, più lui s'interessa a lei.

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The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...''Isn't that going a little too far--e...more

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In the midst of life, we are in death.

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The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who...more

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They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they w...more

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But it is not always the people who say most who do most.

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Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms o...more

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Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and wiser and greater, then the growth must be the oth...more

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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

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Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

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He felt a strange pang. It was, perhaps, the fault of old Mr Jonathan, speaking of Juliet... No Juliet here - unless perhaps one could imagine Juliet ...more

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There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so d...more

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Maybe it is because I am an old man, but I find, M. Poirot, that there is something about the defenselessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth i...more