Perfect Crime Quotes

• Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Perfect, Abuse

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• If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

  Claude Lelouch

  Lying, Perfect, Want

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• We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Philosophy, Perfect

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

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• Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

  Paulo Coelho

  Party, Blow, Perfect

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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• How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Pain, Party

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• To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

  Prem Rawat

  Creating, Perfect, Mind

  Speech in Los Angeles, September 1973.

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• The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

  Claude Lelouch

  Suicide, Killing Someone, Perfect

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• Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Almost Perfect, Shining, World

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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