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“The world’s full of wonder,” he said. “Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.”
One can never be sure of anything without first ascertaining the motives of the writer.”
“Civilization functions only because strong men do not permit weaker men to indulge their baser instincts. Freedom and liberty are the means by which anarchy reigns—and anarchy is the natural state for men to freely express the evil that lurks within them.
“Knowledge lives on even after we’re gone. That’s all we really are. The sum of what others have learned before us. If I die, I hope part of my learning will remain for others to find and make use of.”
When a man comes at you with murder in his eyes the tragedy of it all makes no difference. You kill or you get killed.
Those with nothing but vengeance to live for are condemned by their own bitter victory.