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Book: The Fifth Woman
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Wallander felt on the verge of misconduct.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
In life, people walked together part of the way. Then their paths diverged, so slowly and unnoticed that it wasn't clear what had happened until it was too late. And by that time they were already out of sight of each other."
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Hate can blind people in the same way envy can. Or jealousy. - Kurt Wallander
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
A criminal investigation is like a construction site. Everything has to be done in the proper order or the building won't hold up.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
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.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Dans mon enfance, la Suède était un pays où les gens reprisaient encore leurs chaussettes. J'ai même appris à le faire. Puis soudain, un jour, c'était fini. On a commencer à jeter les chaussettes trouées. Personne ne prenait plus la peine de les raccommoder. Toute la société s'est transformée. Le fait de jeter les affaires usées, c'est devenu la seule règle qui concernait vraiment tout le monde. Bon, il devait bien y en avoir qui continuaient à repriser leurs affaires. Mails on ne les voyait plus. Aussi longtemps que ça ne concernait que les chaussettes, ce n'était peut-être pas si grave. Mais le phénomène s'est étendu. A la fin, c'est devenu comme une sorte de morale, invisible mais omniprésent. Je crois que ça a transformé notre vision du bien et du mal: ce qu'on a le droit de faire aux autres, et ce qu'on ne peut pas leur faire. Tout est devenu tellement plus dur.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Under it all was quagmire.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Aveva l'abitudine di dire che una buona volontà priva di una dose di buon senso poteva causare catastrofi ancora più grandi delle conseguenze di azioni compiute con malanimo e stupidità.
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Life is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between pain and relief. Without ceasing, endless. She
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
Погледна ръчния си часовник. Времето ли отминаваше или животът му?
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Henning Mankell _ The Fifth Woman
But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.
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