Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent. p.179He wondered if there was a greater distance than the one between two pe...
I’m afraid I am hopelessly, furiously envious of all those who will continue to live when I am dead. I am equally embarrassed and terrified by the thought. I try to deny it, but it recurs with increas...
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.
If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.
That would never have worked. You can’t be a hired hand for your own father. Especially when he makes all the decisions, and is always right.
Traces of a crime need to be coaxed out, not rushed.
Träume können ihren Wert haben, selbst wenn man sie nicht verwirklichen kann.
There are evil circumstances and environments, not evil per se. But here I sense the actions of a truly darkened mind. Wallander reached for Svedberg’s pocket calendar
One must occasionally stand the world onits head in order to put it on its feet.
Even as a ten-year-old, the incident made it clear to me that people are never completely what we believe they are. Including me. There is always something unexpected within those we meet, those we th...
The passage of time was relentless and capricious, and one would lose the battle with it in the end. The only resistance a man could offer was to make the most of time, exploit it without trying to pr...
Everybody had within himself a secret room, it seemed to him, where memories and recollections were all jumbled up together.
My grandfather had dominated my childhood out on the island, but my grandmother had been there too, providing the security I didn’t recognise or value until I was an adult.
I used to go to work every day. Now I climb the walls.
I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others' stories. Every genuine work of art contains a small fragment...
Si se diera el caso de un dolor insoportable que no se pudiera paliar, podría pedir que me sedaran. Así abandonaría durmiendo esta vida y este mundo. Prefiero eso que tener que suicidarme. Es algo que...
Aunque más adelante he elegido mal de vez en cuando en la vida, nunca podrá compararse con la derrota que supone no elegir en absoluto.
Tutte le domande continuano a rimanere senza risposta, pensò. Passo la mia vita a cercare di assicurare alla giustizia dei criminali che hanno commesso una serie di reati. Ogni tanto ci riesco, ma il...
Cottage was a cat, staring at him with watchful eyes. He had the impression it was the same cat as he had killed in his fury. He despised the supernatural. Human beings worked constantly to make their...
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