“...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?”
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“Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.”
“Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?”