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“Even when we are punished for the wrong reasons, there is always a real cause for our punishment. Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.”
― Maurice Druon, La reina estrangulada

“The curse did not come from God. It emanated from himself and had no other source but in his own actions; and this was true of every man and of every punishment.”
― Maurice Druon, La reina estrangulada

“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”
― Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital

“But nations never die of the death of a man, however great he may have been; their birth and their death derive from other causes.”
― Maurice Druon, La reina estrangulada