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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
Author
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Montana
United States
Sin
Abstraction
Crime
Absurdity
Wouldn
Crimes
Existence
Tolerate
Punishments
Universe
Sins
Abstractions
Men
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Treasured
Proof
Nihilism
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Endured

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Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.
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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
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The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.
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