Check & Mate
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But if you unzip your asshole and pry your head out of it, you might realize that there’s more to life than feeling sorry for yourself.”
“You are on your knees, we are not negotiating. 48
Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it. 171
I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance. 221
What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. 224
I willed my mind to silence, tried to make it a blank field, white with fresh snow, unmarred by tracks. 259
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things - if love can ever be called that. 417”
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Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it. 171
I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance. 221
What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. 224
I willed my mind to silence, tried to make it a blank field, white with fresh snow, unmarred by tracks. 259
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things - if love can ever be called that. 417”
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