Jo Nesbø - The Redbreast (2000)

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A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

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There's only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

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Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

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Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

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Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

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Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

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