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• Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether…
• Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
• This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war…
• There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
• Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
• They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine…
• The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.…
• I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

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