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Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
“I don’t want to go,” said Ender, “but I will.”
Am I the only human being in this place? Are all the others animals, waiting only to devour?
the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
