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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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Choosing
Forgiveness
Sin
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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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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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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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