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The Leopard
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He was making up a general balance sheet of his whole life, trying to sort out of the immense ash-heap of liabilities the golden flecks of happy moments. These were: two weeks before his marriage, six weeks after; half an hour when Paolo
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“Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
“There was a magnificent legal staff, a mechanism such as is possessed by every state before its political, economic and moral collapse.”
― The Good Soldier Schweik
― The Good Soldier Schweik
“The official embassy flat was a classic example of the East German style of design and décor. Not designed to make you feel at home, but to make you feel there was no such place as home.”
― Hammer to Fall
― Hammer to Fall
“I had me one sharp knife, a throwback to my glory days of the swans, and it’s sharp as a nun on her second sherry.”
― The Devil
― The Devil
“There are times, I don’t know if they come to everyone, when I feel that the future is beyond my strength: too much horror to deal with and no help to turn to.”
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
― The Devil's Home On Leave: Factory 2
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