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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
Illusions
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Illusion
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Men
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
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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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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.
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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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Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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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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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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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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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
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A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.
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