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Maigret : While the suspect in front of him was still holding out, refusing to talk or lying, it was so speak a battle of equals on an almost technical level ... Almost always, sooner or later, the moment came when his restistance would suddenly crack, and Maigret would have him on the ropes because at that moment he became a man again ...

Maigret: It wasn’t a matter of discovering [the human truth] through careful reasoning, through a logical reconstruction of the facts, but of feeling it.

Maigret: In general, a criminal case tends to have similarities with one or more previous cases, as the reasons for killing someone, along with the methods of committing murder, are limited.