Existe una suerte de denominador común entre todas las grandes civilizaciones y culturas clásicas: para quienes vivían en ellas, todas eran inmortales.
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...
Establishing the line between a lie and a fact, the real truth, is the basis of all police work. - Kurt Wallander
At that age, they’re as happy as they can be. Life seems endless, the sorrows few.
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambi...
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Fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.
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...
You have to preserve your dignity. And your place in line . Otherwise they walk all over you. - Wallanders’ father
Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson
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
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...
Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude.
He could feel his stomach churning. I’m repressing things, he thought. Along with everything else I don’t have time for. I’m searching for the slayers of the dead and can’t even manage to pay attentio...
Han lutade sig mot relingen, gav sin tribut till evigheten och spottade i havet.
En los relatos de los otros nos vemos a nosotros mismos. Toda obra de arte sincera contiene un fragmento pequeñísimo de un espejo.
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...
Dos conceptos resumen lo que ha sido y, probablemente, también lo que va a ser: supervivencia y destrucción.
Despite everything, I've tried to take responsibility for my life, and not merely allowed it to float away at the mercy of whatever current came along.