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“I found the stuff and I gave it to him and I sat there watching him die. I’ve never felt so alive, so exultant, so full of power. I watched him die…’ (…)‘I didn’t understand that I was killing myself—not him. Afterwards I saw her caught in a trap—and that was no good either. I couldn’t hurt her—she didn’t care—she escaped from it all—half the time she wasn’t there. She and Amyas both escaped—they went somewhere where I couldn’t get at them. But they didn’t die. I died.”

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Book:Five Little Pigs
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“I have read also," he said, "some of the early works of Mrs.Ariadne Oliver. She is by way of being a friend of mine,and of yours, I think. I do not wholly approve of her works, mind you. The happenings in them are highly improbable. The long arm of coincidence is far too freely employed. And being young at the time, she was foolish enough to make her detective a Finn, and it is clear that she knows nothing about Finns or Finland except possibly the works of Sibelius.”

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Book:The Clocks
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“I didn’t get to that pudding in time. It had boiled dry. I think it’s really all right—just a little scorched perhaps. In case it tasted rather nasty I thought I would open a bottle of those raspberries I put up last summer. They seem to have a bit of mould on top but they say nowadays that that doesn’t matter. It’s really rather good for you—practically penicillin.”

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Book:Mrs. McGinty's Dead
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“Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.”

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Book:Destination unknown
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“It's a matter of reasoning," said Poirot. "The dog, he argues from reason. He is intelligent, he makes his deductions according to his point of view. There are people who may enter a house and there people who may not - that a dog soon learns. Eh bien, who is the person who most persistently tries to gain admission, rattling on the door twice or three times a day - and who is never by any chance admitted? The postman. Clearly, then, an undesirable guest from the point of view of the master of the house. He is always sent about his business, but he persistently returns and tries again. Then the dog's duty is clear, to aid in driving this undesirable man away, and to bite him if possible. A most reasonable proceeding.”

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Book:Dumb Witness
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“Você sabe que as pessoas sempre têm uma razão boa e nobre para mascarar suas ações mais cruéis? Elas "têm que ser honestas" quando querem ser indelicadas, e são tão hipócritas com elas mesmas que passam a vida convencidas de que toda e qualquer ação má e bestial foi tomada com o espírito de desprendimento! Tente se dar conta de que o oposto dessas pessoas pode existir também. Pessoas que são tão cínicas, tão desconfiadas de si mesmas e da vida que acreditam apenas em seus motivos ruins.”

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Book:Sparkling Cyanide
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“Σκέφθηκε πάλι, όπως είχε σκεφθεί και άλλοτε, ότι η σοβαρότητα- με μια μυστιριακή έκφραση αυτοσυγκεντρώσεως- ήταν πάντατόσο ελκυστική. Αναρωτήθηκε τι να περνούσε άραγε απ'το μυαλό της. Ήταν κάτι που κανείς ποτέ δεν θα μάθαινε. Η ίδια δεν θα αποκάλυπτε ποτέ τι σκεπτόταν, όσο επίμονα και βασανιστικά αν την ρωτούσες. Είχε πρωτοτυπία αυτό το πρόσωπ, ένα βαθυστόχαστο και ερευνητικό μυαλό. Συλλογίσθηκε πως ίσως ήταν πολύ "ευάλωτη". Υπήρχαν ένα σωρό λεπτομέρειες, πάνω σ'αυτό το κορμί και το πρόσωπο που ήξερε ή που νόμιζε πως ήξερε. Ήταν μόνον διαισθήσεις, φυσικά, μα ήταν σχεδόν βέβαιος πως ήταν σωστές.”

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Book:Hallowe'en party
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“Mary Cavendish'i ilk gördüğüm anı hiçbir zaman unutmayacağım. Parlak ışıkta belirginleşen ince, uzun, biçimli vücudunu ve daha önce tanıdığım hiçbir kadında görmediğim o ilginç, muhteşem gözlerinde anlam bulan alev alev yanan pırıltıyı. Bu ince, zarif, uygar bedendeki ehlileştirilememiş vahşi ruhun asla ifade bulamadığı sakin, dingin doğasında belirginleşen yoğun gücü... bunlar kafamın bir tarafına adeta kazınmıştı. Ve asla unutmayacaktım.”

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Book:The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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