3
" The process of dying, much like the process of being born, is a very intimate affair. The reason people in such situations instinctively have a desire to hide is not just because they feel physically vulnerable. Dying in the sight of others, as in a public execution, is a double punishment as it is an affront to the victim's modesty in the most brutal way conceivable. It was one of the reasons public executions were considered to have a more criminally preventative effect on the population than execution in the solitude of the cell. Some allowances were made, however, such as obliging the executioner to wear a mask. That wasn't, as many think, to conceal the executioner's identity. The mask was out of consideration for the condemned man, so that he didn't feel a stranger was close to him at the moment of death. "
― Jo Nesbø , Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
6
" Albert Camus twierdził, że samobójstwo to jedyny prawdziwy problem w filozofii -powiedział Aune, pociągając nosem na widok szarego nieba nad Bogstadveien. - Ponieważ
rozstrzygnięcie, czy warto żyć, czy nie warto, to odpowiedź na zasadnicze pytanie w filozofii.
Wszystko inne, czy świat ma trzy wymiary, a duch dziewięć czy dwanaście kategorii,
przychodzi później. "
― Jo Nesbø , Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
13
" They maintain he wrote The Art of War. Personally, I believe it was a woman. On the surface, The Art of War is a manual about tactics on the battlefield, but at its deepest level it describes how to win conflicts. Or to be more precise, the art of getting what you want at the lowest possible price. The winner of a war is not necessarily the victor. Many have won the crown, but lost so much of their army that they can only rule on their ostensibly defeated enemies’ terms. With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can’t learn that, Spiuni. "
― Jo Nesbø , Nemesis (Harry Hole, #4)
