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“Poor Mr Poirot, not so good at these little criminal matters as you thought yourself, are you? Rather past your prime, perhaps?”

“Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased.”

"The sanity of a city full of men against the insanity of one man.”

“What do you call the unforgivable error?”
“Overlooking the obvious.”

“Ignorant people don't love knowledge or desire wisdom either, because the trouble with ignorance is precisely that if a person lacks virtue and knowledge, he's perfectly satisfied with the way he is. If a person isn't aware of a lack, he can't desire the thing which he isn't aware of lacking."

“A lover is bad if he is of the common type,
who loves the body rather than the mind.”

“You pay a high price for being immortal: you have to die several times during your life.”

“The things that humanity used to think seriously about are not even realities, just figments of the imagination or, to put it more strongly, lies from the bad instincts of sick natures who were harmful in the deepest sense.”

“Nothing burns you up more quickly than the effects of resentiment. Annoyance, abnormal vulnerability, inability to take revenge, the desire, the thirst for revenge, every type of poisoning - these are definitely the most harmful ways for exhausted people to react.”

“The most common lie is the one you tell yourself.”

“You do not need to presuppose that people are sinful in order to understand the happiness caused by faith in redemption from sin- you just need to presuppose that people feel sinful.”

“Who are the only people motivated to lie their way out of reality? People who suffer from it. But to suffer from reality means that you are a piece of reality that has gone wrong.”

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

“Agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.”

“Either they're right and I'm wrong or I'm right and they're all wrong or maybe it's some place in between. Most of the people in the world could care less and I often feel the same way.”

“Darkness falls upon humanity and faces become terrible things that wanted more than there was.”

“Every profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter may perhaps wound his vanity; but the former will wound his heart, his sympathy, which says always: 'alas, why do you want to have as hard a time of it as I had?'”

“Every people has its own tartuffery and calls it its virtues. - The best that one is one does not know - one cannot know.”

“Love of one's enemies? I think that has been well learned: it happens thousandfold today, on a large and small scale; indeed, occasionally something higher and more sublime happens - we learn to despise when we love, and precisely when we love best.”

“All this means: we are from the very heart and from the very first - accustomed to lying. Or, to express it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one realizes.”

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”