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“There is a kind of mad glee in accepting death as an inevitable cost.”

“What's it like finally being so powerful that no one can control you?

The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. through those you love and through those you hate; they will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and makes you yield

So there's no way to be safe?

Be invisible, perhaps. Be worthless.

Make them yield first Or be dead. No one can yet master the dead.”

“Forest, I fear you! in my ruined heart

your roaring wakens the same agony

as in cathedrals when the organ moans

and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

—Charles Baudelaire, "Obsession"

“Perhaps like great pain, great loveliness must be forgotten.”

“Moreover, I no longer have any interest in kindness. I mean to win.”