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I don’t like Romans as people; they are greedy, cruel, and too forthright in their wickedness to be interesting to a student of human nature.
“There are times, I don’t know if they come to everyone, when I feel that the future is beyond my strength: too much horror to deal with and no help to turn to.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
“There was a magnificent legal staff, a mechanism such as is possessed by every state before its political, economic and moral collapse.”
― The Good Soldier Schweik
― The Good Soldier Schweik
“The official embassy flat was a classic example of the East German style of design and décor. Not designed to make you feel at home, but to make you feel there was no such place as home.”
― Hammer to Fall
― Hammer to Fall
“Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.”
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
“Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
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