"Yes; it was a dreadful thing to do, but she had very thick ankles."

"A mask tells us more than a face."

"The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose."

"There is no essential incongruity between crime and culture."

"All beautiful things belong to the same age."

"Sin should be solitary, and have no accomplices."

"To be suggestive for fiction is to be of more importance than a fact."

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