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“What’s his name?” “Hercule Poirot.” “I’ve heard of him. I thought he was dead.” “He’s not dead. But I have a feeling he’s bored. That’s worse.”
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“any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“What’s his name?” “Hercule Poirot.” “I’ve heard of him. I thought he was dead.” “He’s not dead. But I have a feeling he’s bored. That’s worse.”
― The Clocks
― The Clocks
“for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
“Why I do believe that’s old Jane Marple. Thought she was dead years ago. Looks a hundred.”
― At Bertram's Hotel
― At Bertram's Hotel
“Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter’s, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.”
― Moby-Dick
― Moby-Dick
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