Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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Word - that invisible dagger.
Permalink to quote #96 Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
Permalink to quote #98 To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
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