The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)
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“When were these seeds of anger sown / And on what ground.”
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As the din in the auditorium rose, Armand Gamache looked behind him at the middle-aged woman waiting to go on, and wondered if the prophet was about to become a messiah. Or a martyr.
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Sneak home and pray you’ll never know / the hell where youth and laughter go.”
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It’s become known as the hundredth monkey effect. Whether it was a hundred monkeys or not, the point was that when a tipping point is reached, when a certain number of monkeys—” “—or people,” said Stephen. “—start doing the same thing—” “—or believing the same thing,” said Stephen. “Exactly,” said Vincent. “The idea explodes.”
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Some came to the end of the world, and kept going. To the place where monsters and madness lived.
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And then shall forgiven and forgiving meet again, or will it be, as always was, too late?
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What is essential is invisible to the eye. Knowledge, ideas, thoughts. Imagination. All invisible. All lived in libraries.
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It was perhaps to trap the Wicked Angel.