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Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

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Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

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Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

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Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

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You don't pick your family, you take what you're given and you make the best of it.

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Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

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Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

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The truth is like salt. Men want to taste
a little, but too much makes everyone
sick.

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You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

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It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

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If life has taught me one thing, it's that there are no villains. Only people, doing their best.

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Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

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It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

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Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

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I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

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But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

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A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

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Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

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I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

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You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

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Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

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People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

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Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

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A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

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Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

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