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      "text": "Fashions change. Even in mythology.",
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      "text": "You will go to any length, however sumptuous or cataclysmic, in order solely to avoid the words: it appears I am at fault.",
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      "text": "“Now, when the man struck you, if you had only said to him, ‘strike me again for good measure, I have no quarrel with you,’ perhaps he would have struck you, or perhaps not, but the affair would have been finished with, and you at liberty to go on as you wished.”\n\n“Master, I see it is a parable, but nevertheless, some men, being allowed to strike another unchecked, will make a habit of striking there. Is that not also an interruption?”\n\n“Life is a series of blows,” said the priest, “birth and death being the greatest of these, but between them, many of lesser sort. And is it possible to return or mend every smack of fate and life? Sit down beneath a storm, for if you shout at it, it will not hear you.”",
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      "text": "“What can we do?” said they, limping home. “We are only ordinary men.”\n\nBy which they meant they thought themselves extraordinary enough that their skins must be saved at all costs.",
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      "text": "Is the only challenge in the world to be greed and viciousness? Is the only satisfying power the power of the ascent over men, the only dream, ambition? And must the alternative to greed, evil, ambition—be only sluggishness?",
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