Character Quote by Theodore Sturgeon

“Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.”

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“Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn’t he known? Hadn’t he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had…

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Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

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Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

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