. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .
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He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others just a shape to fill a lack that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.
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I believe that man not merely endure he will prevail.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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