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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
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"Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself. Every time he took a life it was revenge. It was no wonder, then, that he appreciated nothing. The nuances of vampire existence weren't even available to him because he was focused with a maniacal vengeance upon the mortal life he'd left. Consumed with hatred, he looked back. Consumed with envy, nothing pleased him unless he could take it from others; and once having it, he grew cold and dissatisfied, not loving the thing for itself; and so he went after something else. Vengeance, blind and sterile and contemptible."
"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."
"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."
"One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her - is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions."
"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
"There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire."
"Morality is not respectability."
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
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