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Narrator: Perhaps you’re of the opinion that it isn’t healthy to think of death, that it drags a person down, fills him with hopelessness, is bad for the circulation, but we believe that one literally needs to be dead not to think about death.

Simenon: He was just a man, an unhappy, shattered man who had played the game and lost.

This investigation isn’t very interesting because it is set mainly in upper class hotels. I prefer Maigret stories that involve 1930s working class Parisian folk.

Johnson: Of the three great opera composers, Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner, Mozart is the most enviable because he was not an opera composer: rather, a composer who wrote operas.

Johnson: Figaro, in the end, shows everyone more or less being sensible, decent, and forgiving — and so happy. That is why it is not only Mozart’s best opera but the one people love, probably more loved than any other in the repertoire.

Johnson: "Too many notes" was a charge often brought against Mozart in his day — and after — though never by true musicians.

Johnson: Evebts in [Mozart’s] life did not transform his music. What did so were events in his imagination.

Johnson: [Franz Xavier] was a dull dog, too, but it is no easy job to be the son of a genius and try to follow the family trade.

Comfort read.

Sparrowhawk: The world’s vast and strange, but no vaster and stranger than our minds are.

Hwang: She’d had a single wish, to sit on an egg and see the birth of a baby. Her wish had come true.

Nemmerle: It’s a rare gift to know where you need to be before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.