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" Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. "
Emile M. Cioran
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" The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. "
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