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You have to preserve your dignity. And your place in line . Otherwise they walk all over you. - Wallanders' father
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Perhaps tranquility is what distinguishes the environment in which wealthy people live, he thought. - Kurt Wallander
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In life, people walked together part of the way. Then their paths diverged, so slowly and unnoticed that it wasn't clear what had happened until it was too late. And by that time they were already out of sight of each other.
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I can't have him at my place, that would never work. We'd murder each other.
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remembered him coming home after long shifts and immediately sitting down at the kitchen table, forcing my mother to listen to his complaints about all his difficult colleagues and the maitre d's, not to mention the diners he had to put up with. I never heard him accept responsibility for any tricky situation that had arisen; it was always the other person who had been in the wrong. When I was a child, I thought my father was an amazing man..
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I'm too old for talks. I gave that up when I turned sixty. I'd done enough talking in my life by then. Nowadays I neither speak nor listen to what anybody else has to say.
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Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.
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call. I spent the next few hours playing poker with myself. It's the saddest expression of loneliness I know. I never feel more overwhelmed by weariness and unhappiness than when I'm trying to win money off myself. There is no deeper form of isolation.
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She expressed herself clearly, as only people who talk a lot to themselves can.
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