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a man in whom violence boiled below the surface in much the same way that fresh-poured polenta waited for the chance to burn the mouth of anyone who tried to eat it.
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hard on a curve and lost control of the
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pasticcio
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belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In
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love trumped principle. Paola tossed out these things
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In any other city in Italy, the fact that no one had seen or heard anything would be no more than an indication of their distrust of the police and a general unwillingness to help them. Here, however, where the people were generally law-abiding and most of the police themselves Venetians, it meant no more than that they had seen or heard nothing. If
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You know, Guido, at times I find it difficult to believe you do the sort of work you do. (Medical examiner's view of Commissario Guido Brunetti)
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policeman
venice
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Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.
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I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories and make them happier.
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venice
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She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun.
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walking-benefits
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Where does American money come from? Steel. Railways. You know how it is over there. It doesn't matter if you murder or rob to get it. The trick is in keeping it for a hundred years, and then you're aristocrats.' 'Is that so different from here?' Brunetti asked. 'Of course,' Padovani explained, smiling. 'Here we have to keep it five hundred years before we're aristocrats. And there's another difference. In Italy, you have to be well-dressed..
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Again, she put her face in her hands and wiped away the years, then let them return and looked at him.
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, dear friends and companions: we are here today to say goodbye to our brother Andrea, who to many of us was far more than a friend. He was healer and helper, someone who comforted us when we were worried about our friends and who dedicated himself with love and devotion to taking care of them, and of us, for he knew that we are all children of the same God, who delights to see the love we bring to one ano..
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Torri and
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Beauty was where you found it, and it was always comforting to see.
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Her glance put him on the scales and weighed him, and then she said, 'Less trouble accepting reality, I think.
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Well, there'd be no determining breed with this one: he was as much Bergamasco as Labrador, as much spaniel as hound. He was happy, that was evident, and perhaps that's all a dog needed to be and all Brunetti needed to know about a dog. The arrival of the vaporetto cut off his reflections but did not remove Morandi from his mind. 'People don't change.' How many times had he heard his mother say that? She had never studied psychology, his mo..
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When you're in pain, you need to think of something so that at least part of you can be free of the pain, so that your mind can go somewhere where there's no pain.
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knew, yet his behaviour had suggested that his information was of
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He had learned over the years that most professional and social situations were pretty much like water on uneven ground: sooner or later, they would work themselves level. People, over time, generally decided who was the Alpha and who the Beta. Higher rank sometimes helped with the determination, but not always.
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Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.
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And the sight
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The old die softly or the old die hard,
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Well, he'd gone this far, animated by nothing more noble than curiosity, he told himself as he studied the face of the man in the mirror, pushing his collar down over his neatly knotted tie. The man's mind slipped into English: The cat's got your tongue. Curiosity killed the cat. To stay in vein, the man in the mirror gave a Cheshire smile, and Brunetti left the house.
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mystery
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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,
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Aren't you ashamed that you pay all of your attention to acquiring as much money as you can, without giving any thought to truth and understanding and the perfection of your soul?
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That first time, we talked about the servant, who had influenza, but when I came back, we somehow started to talk about Greek poetry. And that led to a discussion, if I remember correctly, of Greek and Roman historians. The count is particularly fond of Thucydides. Since I'd gone to the classical liceo, I could talk about them without making a fool of myself, so the count decided I must be a competent doctor. Now he comes to my office every..
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a great comfort faith can be to those left behind.
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Don't you have any desire for vengeance?" he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian."
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sarcastic-humor
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Intellectuals"?' Brunetti repeated. 'I think it's more true to say they're the cartographers of the Flat Earth Society"
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but all that you will have now, and for the rest of your lives, is loss and pain and the terrible sense that you somehow failed this boy. And no matter how deep your knowledge that you were not responsible for it, your certainty that you were will always be deeper and more absolute.
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Nor has the extent of your prosperity produced any change in you, except that it has given you the power of doing good to the utmost of your wishes. And whilst all these circumstances increase the veneration which other persons feel for you, with respect to myself, they have made me so bold, as to wish to become more familiar.
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It's more important to understand people than to forgive them.
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When he thought about it, it seemed to Brunetti that what he did when he came here was similar to what a person who was going to experience physical pain--an injection, exposure to sharp cold--did with his body: he tensed his muscles and concentrated, to the exclusion of all other sensation, on resisting that anticipated pain. But, instead of tightening his muscles, Brunetti found himself, if such a thing could be said to be, tightening his..
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