„Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.[Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories. ]“

— Agatha Christie

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„Sometimes I had an overwhelming urge to speak, not about that, but only to hint that there were some curious things about me which no one knew of. I wanted to find out whether other people had undergone similar experiences. I never succeeded in discovering so much as a trace of them in others. As a result, I had the feeling that I was either outlawed or elect, accursed or blessed.“
— C.G. Jung
„If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.“
— Isaac Newton
„If you really come down to any large story that interests people – holds the attention for a considerable time … human stories are practically always about one thing, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death.“
— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien