Book: Five piglets. Page 1

She was not restrained by any rules, she was guided by the motto of our time: "Take what you want - for you live only once!".

But there is a defenselessness in young people that touches me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable... So cruel... So opinionated... So generous and so demanding...

She did not fight, but retreated into her world of partial shade and half-light. She didn’t lose because she didn’t play.

- How would I put it more clearly... It's a typical English way of looking at things. "Do not shoot at a sitting bird" - do you understand the meaning of such an expression?
- Yes, as you said, a typical English point of view. But I think I understood. And in the Central Criminal Court, and on the Eton Sports Ground, and in the hunting grounds, it is important for the Englishman that the victim has his chance.

Children are sometimes very good at people.

Here, after all, you know, it is not the muscles that are important. I don’t have to bend over and measure footprints, collect cigarette butts and study crumpled blades of grass. It is enough to sit in a chair and think. It is here, ”he tapped his finger on his head, which was elongated in the shape of an egg,“ that works!

- The truth - said Hercule Poirot never be assessed only from court transcripts. Much remains outside of these documents and at the same time is of great importance. This feeling, the feelings, the characters are participants in the drama, the extenuating circumstances...

I believe, Monsieur Poirot, that, whatever feelings the person may have experienced, he is obliged to hold them back. And to control himself.

... The greatest success and happiness in life is achieved not by those who seemed, at first had the advantage.

Such is the nature of man. We know of people and have no illusions about our neighbors. Most of them are not so bad, but they cannot be idealized. My success lies in psychology, in the eternal "why" and "why" of human behavior.

Youth is so vulnerable. She's so ruthless and cocky. Generous - and excessively demanding.
(... In my youth, there is some insecurity, and it is touched to tears. Youth is so vulnerable and at the same time ruthless and cocky. She is so generous and so demanding.)

How much pain and sorrow sometimes bring honest motives!

... To convince anyone so hard! If people decide on something - especially when it comes to women, he doesn't listen to anyone's arguments.