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“"Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear, fear of loss, fear of death.I say we break those chains.Break the chains of fear and you break the chains that bind us to the Golds, to the Society. Could you imagine it?"”
“"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power."”
“How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.”
“I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn't. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical.”
“Don't you find it peculiar? The human conviction that we are the heirs of history instead of paragraphs that are almost over. A survival mechanism, no doubt.”
“I think, as with all things, honor is best appreciated in moderation. As is cruelty.”
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