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Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

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... obsessions are always dangerous.

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Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

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To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

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Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

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Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.

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I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

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And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!

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Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

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Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

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When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.

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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

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If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

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To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

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Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

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