quotes about Crime Novels

“Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.”

“Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.”

“Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.”

“Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.”

“When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.”

“Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.”

“Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning.”

“My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.”

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“Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.”

“Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan