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We don’t realize who else we punish while we’re punishing ourselves.”
“Success breeds pride and vanity. And pride is the only reward of success.”
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
― Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
“All wars are without reason, Sita. Men fight to satisfy their egos, to secure their property, or to simply grab what belongs to others.”
― Ravana's Sister
― Ravana's Sister
“Is the desire for vengeance stronger than the longing to be loved? What evil magic does it possess to draw the human heart so powerfully to it?”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
“voice seemed to stick into his brain like jagged splinters of glass. He tried to think of O'Brien, for whom, or to whom, the diary was written, but instead he began thinking of the things that would happen to him after the Thought Police took him away. It would not matter if they killed you at once. To be killed was what you expected. But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that”
― 1984
― 1984
“In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”
― 1984
― 1984
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