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Joss Ratcliffe

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“Make no assumptions. About anything. Ever. Stay mindful, my friend, and suspicious. Suspicious, but not frightened by complexity.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

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“The measure of the perfect theft is when the victim remains blissfully unaware that he or she has been stolen from.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

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“A releasing of said tension, a dying of the sparks. I now fear getting depressed."
"The risk of achieving what you wish for.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

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“Yet identities persisted. On a personal level. Freedom was little more than a tattered net, draped over a host of minor, self-imposed bindings. Its stripping away changed little, except, perhaps, the comforting delusion of the ideal. Mind bound to self, self to flesh, flesh to bone. As the Errant wills, we are a latticework of cages, and whatever flutters within knows but one freedom, and that is death.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

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“Morality has many charms. What could be more captivating than a vision of everlasting justice? Yet visions of justice are as immutable as styles in shoes. What morality demands shifts across the generations and may change more than once within a single human lifetime. Not so long ago morality required spreading civilization by extending imperial power. Today, morality condemns empire in all its forms. These judgements are irreconcilably opposed. But they provide the same satisfaction to those who pronounce them – a gratifying sense of virtue.”
― John N. Gray, Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life

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