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"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"
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"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
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"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
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