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locked his fingers on the arm of his
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If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He
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Brunetti shrugged. They believed him to be a member of the community of scholars...'Community of Scholars," she repeated , "It would make the chickens laugh"
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I've always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.
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Well, I don't believe it any more, none of it: I have no faith and I have no hope.' Though
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Helmut thought himself above common morality. Or perhaps he thought he'd managed to create his own, different from ours, better.
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And that, Brunetti realized, was beginning to interest him a great deal, for the answer to his death must lie there, as it always did. Santore
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Brunetti's best friend had often said that he wanted death to take him just at the moment he laid his last lira down on a bar and said, 'Prosecco for everyone.
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If you work with only your body, all you'll do is work for enough to eat.
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Then, as if Truth had reminded her to whom she was speaking, she added, 'But I wasn't surprised.
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Both of them had always taken delight in this most wonderful of holdovers from the academic Stone Age, the fact that the rector of the university was addressed as "Il Magnifico Rettore," the only thing Brunetti had learned in twenty years on the fringes of the university that had managed to make academic life sound interesting to him."
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the warmth and smell he associated with
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His eyes were all policeman.
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A man without a sense of fashion is a man without a soul.
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even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?
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am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, 'as free as the road, as loose as the wind.'" Brunetti"
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At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He
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I remember that's the way he was before we came out here. But then it was as if we'd come to a magic country where people changed into the person you wanted them to be, and all of a sudden my father became quiet and patient and had time to read to me.
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the discovery of speed.
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come face to face with this reminder of what we all know and feel uncomfortable knowing: that life plugs along, no matter what happens to any of us. It puts one foot in front of the other, whistling a tune that is dreary or merry by turn, but it always puts one foot in front of the other and moves on.
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ufficio catasto,
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Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.
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hostages to fortune.
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when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing?
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I'm glad I'm sitting down, Guido. You make my knees go all wobbly.
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Brunetti didn't like knowing that she was right.
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She stood motionless like that for
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They walked slowly, taking the shortest way, deliberately cutting through Campo delle Fava to avoid the crowds in Calle della Bissa. When they arrived at the foot of the Rialto bridge, they looked up at it, horrified. Anthill, termites, wasps. Ignoring these thoughts, they locked arms and started up, eyes on their feet and the area immediately in front of them. Up, up, up as feet descended towards them, but they ignored them and didn't stop..
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poetry
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a woman whom the course of years had turned sour and to whom the vows meant poverty of spirit, chastity of humour, and obedience only to some rigorous concept of duty.
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He remembered enough of his study of logic to recognize a slippery slope when he saw it, even in his own thinking, but still it felt right to suspect that Chiara's failure to give sympathy might somehow lead to a refusal to give aid.
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People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's
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Brunetti had once come across the term 'compassion fatigue', but thought that the oh-so-clever press had got it wrong, and the term should really be, 'horror fatigue'.
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Exactly what I said: she's still a child in many ways, so she's discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time, and she still sees each one as a discrete unit: she hasn't seen the connections or contradictions among them; not yet.' She
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momento mori,
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Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to
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A wife is her husband's richest treasure, a helpmeet, a steadying column. A vineyard with no hedge will be overrun; a man with no wife becomes a helpless wanderer,"' he quoted,"
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That's probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.
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Roberta Marieschi
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I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.
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religion
god
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I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny little universe don't mean anything to God. You ever think of that?
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religion
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if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't have sex, he's going to be obsessive about the subject. Then to give him the power to tell other people how to run their sex lives, well, that's just asking for trouble. In a way, it's like having a blind person teach Art History, isn't it?
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sex
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Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
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liars
lawyers
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with renewing his offer of
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Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years?
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