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When he spoke vehemently he did not raise his voice, but lowered it.

if Nilssen was vain of the impressions he created, it was because he knew that he created them very well.

Walter Moody was not superstitious, though he derived great enjoyment from the superstitions of others, and he was not easily deceived by impression, though he took great care in designing his own.

‘Oh, come!’ he said. ‘Ease your burden.’
‘It is not a burden to be eased, Mr. Balfour.’
‘My friend, I have never heard of such a thing.’

Certainly whenever he caught his own reflection, in a window box, or in a pane of glass after nightfall, he felt a thrill of satisfaction—but as an engineer might feel, chancing upon a mechanism of his own devising and finding it splendid, flashing, properly oiled and performing exactly as he had predicted it should.

He had, in short, an appearance that betrayed very little about his own character, and an appearance that others were immediately inclined to trust.

Здесь любой может начать все с чистого листа. Создать себя заново. Что это вообще такое - второе "я"? Что значит имя? Его подбираешь, как самородок с земли.

Он был непривычен к гнетущему бремени лжи, когда врун вдруг осознает, что произнесенное вранье связало его по рукам и ногам, и теперь он вынужден продолжать лгать и громоздить на первый из обманов новые, помельче, и, замкнувшись в себе, одиноко размышлять о совершенной ошибке.

С.740: "...она, сжав зубы, приготовилась к любой судьбе - как встречаешь всем телом порыв ветра".