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The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold.
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.
When people use statistics, in 72% of cases, they've made them up on the spur of the moment. Katrine Bratt
Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.
already imprisoned inside themselves. Prisons of hatred and self-contempt he recognised all too well.
What was it Harry used to say? Intuition is only the sum of many small but specific things the brain hasn't managed to put a name to yet.
As usual, he had escaped into his work when his private life became too much of a burden. It was typical of a certain type of man, he had read.
you should never postpone your pleasures, that there was no guarantee that you would live another day.
Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults
I'm working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.' 'Hasn't someone already written that one?
The social space between people who don't know each other is form one to three and a half metres. - Beate Lonne
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
Revenge, revenge, revenge. Did you know that humans are the only living creatures to practise revenge? The interesting thing about revenge -
In a nutshell, Harry, they're two sides of the same coin. Life becomes a living hell, but the alternative is even worse. Ha
Most of the water, however, did not run into the wall, but down it, because water, like cowardice and lust, always finds the lowest level.
Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.
Harry had underrated intuition before, both other people's and his own, and it had been to his cost every time without exception.
There was only one thing emptier than having lived without love, and that was having lived without pain.
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also - Harry Hole , Lisbeeth Salander, Funky Scando Fiction, Supports Swans, Nirvana,
a man does not become the leader of a flock through brute strength but through his ability to read situations correctly.
Rikshospital. He was in the rhythm now. Time was not chopped up by events; it flowed in an even stream.
It's strange, but when your father has gone you suddenly discover that the choices you have made were as much for him as for yourself.
No, of love. It's the same currency. Everything starts with love. Hatred is just the other side of the coin.
The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
Insanity just is, a kind of natural disaster that strikes out of the blue, the kind of thing that can happen.
Heredity. It's like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can't avoid. Death, for instance.
Watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen.
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
If life is such a painful experience and we can't change that, why can't this person just be allowed to die?
I think it's possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you've realized something, it's too late.
As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.
Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.
Buildings on the riverbank. He took the last hundred-krone notes and put them in his money belt. He had heard that in St. Petersburg
Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having.
They're so rich and revered that they have neither electricity nor running water. Only social climbers have a sauna and a Jacuzzi.