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Soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.
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Things are as they are.
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What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
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History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.
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Many years ago Wallander had learned that one of the manifold virtues a police officer must possess is the ability to be patient with himself.
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I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
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Self-preservation was more important than revenge, and
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We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.
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It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.
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We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.
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A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.
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A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.
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When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
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Who ever said police work was supposed to be fun?
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An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.
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Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
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The truth changes all the time.
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Every secret we confide in another
person can be a burden to them — Henning Mankell
person can be a burden to them — Henning Mankell
The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.
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Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.
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You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
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A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession.
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We only have the past that we have. Not all of our deeds were incorrect.
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We live in an age when the mice are hunting the cats ... nobody knows who are the mice and who the cats.
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An oppressed people will always rise.
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We all have our peculiarities," said Wallander.
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I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!
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I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
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Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.
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Those who contemplate never escape the doubt.
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People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
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He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.
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The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, the only things worth writing about are love and murder.
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When one historical period is replaced by another, there is
always a group of people left over from the old society — Henning Mankell
always a group of people left over from the old society — Henning Mankell
The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves
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The truth lies in poverty and simplicity.
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Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
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You have a good father." She was taken aback.
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At what point does the normal suddenly become the abnormal? he
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Pride was dangerous and could make you vulnerable.
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Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.
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Criminals in a hurry are always the easiest to trace, Lundstr
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There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.
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There was a sort of beauty that only comes with age. A whole life engraved into facial wrinkles.
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To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.
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Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.
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Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
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the remnants of a person's life inevitably ended up at the nearest dump.
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Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
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Recalling the dream was like trying to follow a ship into fog.
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Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.
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What we're in is a vacuum.
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Novels are ... an unsurpassed form to understand people.
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I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.
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Unlike Tania, who was so slim, Rykoff looked as if he'd been given an order to get fat
an order he had been delighted to obey. — Henning Mankell
an order he had been delighted to obey. — Henning Mankell
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
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This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.
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He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He
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His definition of friendship had been grounded on the lowest common denominator, an absence of animosity. He
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A woman would have never been able to live in a house with no pictures of her family,
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You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
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there was no such thing as past or future. There was no time that could be lost or won. The only thing that counted was action.
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Fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.
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I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
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The stories I create are never as awful as reality.
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One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
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I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls.
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There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.
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It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky
like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell
like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell
Letters ... People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.
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Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.
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New ideas are always resisted.
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Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude.
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On the one hand, everything is connected, on the other hand, it is not.
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At that age, they're as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.
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Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.
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Every time Wallander stepped into someone's home, he felt as though he were looking at the front cover of a book that he had just bought
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What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible.
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Someone must lead the way.
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God allowed no mistakes.
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No doubt you thought I was dead. I sometimes think I am myself.
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A question that wasn't asked was a question that didn't need an answer.
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Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.
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The evil always comes from details.
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Not everything can go according to the plan.
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My mother did what many men do. She left.
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He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
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A dead black man - nothing to bother about.
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Once more they had left their own time for another age. The age of Bellman, the bacchanalian 18th-century poet.
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It's only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we're of any real use.
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Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and
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There is a silence in empty houses that is unique ... People have left and taken all the noise with them.
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Under it all was quagmire.
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