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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.

Brent Weeks

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
Men
Conscience
Think
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Twice

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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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When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
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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 master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
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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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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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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 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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