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"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system."
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"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
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