Status Updates From La Compagnie des menteurs

"I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth."

"Why should we starve and watch a baby die when there was food for the taking? It was hard to fathom, but the old laws and the old order were crumbling about our ears. There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law—though shalt do anything to survive."

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