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Mark Lawrence

"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."

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"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."

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"Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield."
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"It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas."
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"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."
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"Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name- Baraqel. I didn't like him much."
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"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."
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"Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing."
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"You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down."
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"We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on."
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"For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide."
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"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."
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