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Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Power
Lust
Men
Leads
Places
Empty
Results
Dark
Knowledge
Else
Valuing

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Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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To find that place between what I want and what I think is wise.
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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem it's mine.
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