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There is nothing so destructive as thought.

Most women are less in love with their partners as they are desperate for their approval, starving for their devotion. They want, most often, to be touched as no one else could touch them, and most inaccurately assume this requires romance.”

Don’t you ever detest the necessity of emotional attachment?

“Is it not a proven fact of history that power isn’t meant to be in the hands of the very few?”
“For every tyrant, there is a ‘free’ society which destroys itself. Power is not meant for those who misuse it.”
“Is it not the worst tyranny that which perceives itself noble?”
“Greed is greed.”

“So we’re not simple we’re just… all the same?”
“A flaw of humanity - the compulsion to be unique, at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”

People were reliable for being careless with information.

Nico hated himself most when he made her feel small.

There was no reality at all except in the relations between systems. What everyone else was seeing - illusions, perceptions, interpretations - was not an objective form of reality, what meant that, conversely, what Tristan saw… was.

“What do you want from me? I’ll give it to you if it means you’ll work harder at playing this game.”

With very rare exception, emotions are stronger than thought and harder to conceal. And, unlike thought, emotions can be easily manipulated.