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“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows

“You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Beyond Good and Evil
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Beyond Good and Evil

“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“When this you see remember me and bare me in your mind. Let all the world say what they may, speak of me as you find.
Brian Jones
1968 ”
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Brian Jones
1968 ”
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