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"I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man."
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"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else."

"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."

"Looks sure can be deceiving: not every 'ugly' person is a 'bad' person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused of)."

"There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault."

"Never make decisions when you are super angry or super excited. When the emotional center is at the Peak the logical awareness is at the bottom!!!"

"If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote."

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

"Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs. "Coffee? Water?" Don't say wax fruit. "Wax fruit?" Damn."
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

"If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

"Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."

"But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like reason itself and assumes all the aspects of the syllogism. Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."

"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."

"If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent."

"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

"I didn't like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."
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