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But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

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Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.
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I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.
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Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.
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Take no as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say yes right away.
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-Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.
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Bullshit, Salander said again. Gottfried isn't the only kid who was ever mistreated. That doesn't give him the right to murder women. He made that choice himself. And the same is true of Martin.
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