For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the
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“The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.”
― The Tower of Swallows
― The Tower of Swallows
“everyone looks up like rats caught in a spotlight eating the brains of a friend dead in a trap.”
― Noir
― Noir
“But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.”
― The October Man
― The October Man
“Na-aroénna spun like a chrysanthemum of slaughter, and Goremaw rose and fell like the beating heart of death.”
― The Grace of Kings
― The Grace of Kings
“After all, if all biographers were fixated on the mere fact of death, then we could simply replace every biography in existence with a sign that reads “Everyone dies” and end it at all at that, could we not?”
― The Magnificent Third Rail: A Retrospective
― The Magnificent Third Rail: A Retrospective
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