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Le Guin: The danger of trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with doing things well.

Medra: The lords of war despise scholars and schoolmasters.

Ember: For us who live, in hiding, neither killed nor killing. The dead are dead. The great and mighty go their way unchecked. All the hope left in the world is in the people of no account.

Van Meulen: Morally, if I may use the express, we’re all capable of committing murder, provided we have sufficient motive and we’re convinced we won’t get caught.

Maigret: Are you going to talk?
Suspect: I don’t know yet. I’m wondering if I have anything to say.

Simenon: When [Maigret] had first arrived in the capital at the age of twenty, what had troubled him the most was the constant ferment of the city, the hundreds of thousands of people milling round in search of something or other.

Agnes: If no one will say your name, you are forgotten. I am forgotten.

Agnes: To know what a person has done and to know what a person is are two very different things.