Behavior

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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The woman who yields to promises sets her bark afloat upon a raging sea. In fulfillment alone lies safety.

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I have always been so sure, too sure. But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know."

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I have no more now to say. I do not know, Hastings, if what i have done is justified or not justified. No — i do not know. I do not believe that a man should take the law into his own hands... But on the other hand, i am the law! As a young man in the Belgian police force i shot down a desperate criminal who sat on a roof and fired at people below. In a state of emergency martial law is proclaimed.

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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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In my end is my beginning: that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...

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I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.

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I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now — this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them would be true.

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Men always tell such silly lies.

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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...