When you see something so often you tend to develop a blindness to it.

Experience had thought him that silence was the most effective of all methods to make people talk. When two strangers sit facing each other, silence functions like a vacuum, sucking words out.

Don't think about what you are searching for. Think about what you find. Why is that there? Should it be there? What does it mean? It's like reading - if you think about an "l" while looking at a "k", you won't see the words.

Albert Camus twierdził, że samobójstwo to jedyny prawdziwy problem w filozofii -powiedział Aune, pociągając nosem na widok szarego nieba nad Bogstadveien. - Ponieważrozstrzygnięcie, 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.

The problem is that only thirty to forty per cent of all words can be read directly from the lips. To understand the rest you have to study the face and body language, and use your linguistic instincts and logic to insert the missing words. Thinking is as important as seeing.

Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to be so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived. Vengeance or death. It sounds like the title of a western, right, but remember it was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling from the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilisation.