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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.


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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.



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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.



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When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.




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