“Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.”
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“No amount of telling is worth doing it once.”
“Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.”
“I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.”
“Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.”
“But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.”
“Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.”
“Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.”
“Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.”
“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”