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Heartlessness wasn't the sole province of the rich.
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How could you comprehend things whose existence you doubt?
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5953d21
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First, the fact he awoke at all. Cogito, ergo how the hell aren't I dead?
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63ed1d5
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The fallacy of your personal bias is inherent in your choice of words.
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Ian Tregillis |
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8b51e3d
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Absence of proof," said Bell, "is not proof of absence."
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Ian Tregillis |
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He'd expected torture. He hadn't expected surgery.
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Ian Tregillis |
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1612d53
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He didn't trust them. But he did trust their greed.
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Ian Tregillis |
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d314e16
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It isn't courtly politics if somebody doesn't get a dagger in the back.
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Ian Tregillis |
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6b7c825
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It's not my fault your makers made you humorless.
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1eadd04
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Perhaps there really was a God, and He was just as cruel as the humans He made in His form.
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Ian Tregillis |
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Only a fool wasted energy on things he could not control.
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Ian Tregillis |
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8032f18
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But the speculation was pointless. The past was forever in the past.
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Ian Tregillis |
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9ae26bb
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The duke was right about you.""He survived? That's a shame."
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Ian Tregillis |
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32f7646
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Your family excels at being a pain in my ass. Are you certain you're not part Dutch?
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Ian Tregillis |
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58b550f
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We've drawn attention to ourselves with our obsessive need to stay inconspicuous.
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Ian Tregillis |
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To lose the satchel now would prove that God, if He existed, was a truly sadistic son of a bitch.
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Ian Tregillis |
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678dd5c
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Every additional second the king didn't take a bullet in the eye seemed a good sign.
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Ian Tregillis |
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e76180e
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Alchemy was useful but never compassionate.
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Ian Tregillis |
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ac1fd82
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I've learned to be wary when something makes you this excited.
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Ian Tregillis |
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You're no stranger to spinning gold from the hay of human misery, are you?
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