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21 " Injustice is like the weather. If you can’t live with it, move. Injustice is not part of the systems’s machinery. It is the machinery. - Sigurd Altman "
― Jo Nesbø , The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8)
22 " I think it’s possible to learn. The problem is that we learn so damned slowly, so that by the time you’ve realized something, it’s too late. For example, someone one you love might ask you for a favor, an act of love. Like helping him die. Which you say no to because you haven’t learned, you haven’t had the insight. When you do finally see the light, it’s too late. - Harry Hole "
23 " Post Office by Charles Bukowski, which made him – who "
24 " It often strikes me how I ought to wish I had more regrets,” Øystein said. “But I don’t give a shit. I think I just accepted from my first waking second that I was an asshole. What about you? "
25 " Sometimes feelings of guilt are wasted and no good to anyone involved. "
26 " Surveys proved that people had less confidence in overweight public figures, who were subconsciously perceived to be lacking in self-control. "
27 " Because pain and death are not the worst that can befall mankind,” Harry said, again hearing the echo. “Humiliation is. That was what he wanted for Leike. The humiliation of having everything you possess taken from you. The fall, the shame. "
28 " There were those who asserted that sons always became, to some degree or other, disguised variants of their fathers, that the experience of breaking out was never more than an illusion; you returned; the gravity of blood was not only stronger than your willpower, it was your willpower. "
29 " Light, expensive and yet spartan in that cool modern way that is not intentionally minimalist, just somewhat soulless. A room that demands efficiency so that you can get the hell out of it. "
30 " rapture of the deep "
31 " Because humans are complicated,” Harry said, and could hear an echo of something he had heard and forgotten. “We want to do things that are complex, that mesh, where we control our fates and can feel like rulers of our own universes. "