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“I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.”
“I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.”
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
“War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.”
“It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.”
“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”
“You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down.”
“It’s often said that cowards make the best torturers. Cowards have good imaginations, imaginations that torment them with all the worst stuff of nightmare, all the horrors that could befall them. This provides an excellent arsenal when it comes to inflicting misery on others. And their final qualification is that they understand the fears of their victim better than the victim does himself.”
“Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw.”