“Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.”
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“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”
“You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.”
“You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before”
“But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.”
“Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.”
“Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.”