What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.
I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
El hecho de que hayamos desarrollado la capacidad intelectual guarda relación, lógicamente, con la supervivencia. En último término, lo único que queremos es sobrevivir. Queremos vivir, no morir. Cada...
En los relatos de los otros nos vemos a nosotros mismos. Toda obra de arte sincera contiene un fragmento pequeñísimo de un espejo.
Friendship often develops out of a meeting at which nobody had expected any such miracle to happen. - Kurt Wallander
Hate can blind people in the same way envy can. Or jealousy. - Kurt Wallander
He had been working with some of them for over fifteen years. It occurred to him that these were people who made up the content of a large proportion of his life. He was now the one who had been worki...
He stared down at the empty street and wondered why all city streets resembled each other at night. He
I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.You should have said the Doctor everybody should.
Indirect questions can produce direct answers. - Anne-Brit Höglund
It was only in the Western world that old people were viewed with indulgence or contemptuous sympathy. In other cultures, age was respected as the period of enlightened wisdom.
It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly.
Linda recognized the car next to it as Höglund’s. Linda fingered the Swiss army knife in her pocket, but this was not a night for slashing tires.
Någonstans ute i mörkret, borta vid de lömska Stökgrunden slog en osynliga gädda en virvel, och mot öster, där gryningen brukade komma skrek en uppretad tärna.Kanske också fåglar hade mardrömmar?
People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee, Wallander said.No work would be possible without coffee.They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the...
Some people give theirselves a certain number of weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them or , w...
Something that makes it possible for me to start thinking about the future again.
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