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“Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise.
Has it?”
― The Terror
Has it?”
― The Terror
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― The Terror
― The Terror
“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
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