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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
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You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.
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A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
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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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..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.
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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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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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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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The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.
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A wolf can be a wolfhound, son, but it can never be a lapdog.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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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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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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It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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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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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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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.
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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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