The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés honesty humanity lie lying humiliation embarrasment



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First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and the end of end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés harry-potter sphinx goblet-of-fire third-task triwizard-tournament



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According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

J.K. Rowling


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Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

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I have given you your liberty, Lucius, is that not enough for you? But I have noticed that you and your family seem less than happy of late. . . . What is it about my presence in your home that displeases you, Lucius?”
“Nothing — nothing, my Lord!”
“Such lies, Lucius . . .

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés harry-potter voldemort



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She had a way of moving that moved him as much as music, which was what moved him most of all. Surely the spirit animating that pearless body must be unusual too? Why would nature make a vessel like that, if not to contain something still more valuable?

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés soul body



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She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

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Her family half carried Terri Weedon back down the royal blue carpet, and the congregation averted its eyes.

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She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box.

The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés happiness death internet enmity



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He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

J.K. Rowling

Mots clés sadness anger bitter after-death the-ones-we-leave-behind



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