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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie
Age: 85 †
Born: 1890
Born: September 15
Died: 1976
Died: January 12
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Dramaturge
Novelist
Nurse
Playwright
Poet
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan
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... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.
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I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
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Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.
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Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.
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I'm afraid of death... Yes, but that doesn't stop death coming.
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Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
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The past is the father of the present.
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You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
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It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without. ~ Poirot
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The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety sanctification gives us the second - soundness.
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Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.
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Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.
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He laughs best who laughs at the end.
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Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
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the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.
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I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.
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