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1 " We're equal before the law - if we pay the same amount "
― David Lagercrantz , The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
2 " Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine. "
3 " Everything has its time "
4 " Ha, no, that it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less. It’s the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse. "
5 " Money talks, bullshit walks. "
6 " It wasn’t just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place. "
7 " How come all lunatics and murderers are religious these days? "
8 " it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less. "
9 " we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited. "
10 " what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God. "
11 " Sometimes things go wrong, no matter how careful you are. "
12 " Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain. "
13 " Are you insane?” “Probably, yes,” she said. “Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines. "
14 " Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There’s a fundamental democratic logic to it. "
15 " Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. "
16 " It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be. "
17 " I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile. "
18 " Faste is an idiot.” “No, Jan, he isn’t. He’s just …” “What?” “Conservative. He’s not someone who falls for the latest feminist fads.” “Or for the earliest ones either. He may have just got his head around all that stuff about votes for women. "
19 " Wait, Ed. Did you say she?” “You better believe it. Our hacker’s a she! "
20 " These days you can’t do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints. "