| Quotes
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| "Sometimes, a man needs to hear understanding and forgiveness from someone who has no need to do either before he can move on."
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| "You see...I must confess, madamoiselle, that you have been on my mind. The tantalizing taste of your lips still lingers upon my own. How did you do it? Was it poison? Dark magic? I am so very curious, madamoiselle, how such beautiful lips can be turned to such a fearsome weapon. Will you please indulge me?"
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| "Ma chere, if there is anything I absolutely refuse to be, it is boring; even unconscious, I've no doubt I could hold your interest, if merely to see how long it would take before my breath vanished in my throat."
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| "You have the same power everyone else does, monsieur. To keep your eyes and ears open; to look, to listen, and to think for yourself."
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| "There is something in this universe that I would sacrifice a world for, monsieur Mercade Alexander. I do not hope, nor do I expect, that it will ever come to that, but one day, you and I may be enemies. But I suspect that you too have something you value so highly that you would sacrifice a world for it, too. It is a very easy thing to say that you would not in our situation, that you would never...but we cannot ever truly be sure of who we are in the dark until the lights go out."
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| "But regrets are chains; they blind us to the world as it is, to the world as we must see it."
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| "That is because the illusions I live inside are crafted to fool others, not myself. I know the truth from the illusion quite well; I am its architect. The lies you are holding are lies of your own making, but they exist to fool you and you alone."
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| "I can only imagine that their idea of breaking into an establishment involves driving an automobile through the wall or somesuch other nonsense."
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| "Please forgive me for not standing, monsieur et madamoiselle; your chair is quite comfortable, you see, and I would be loathe to leave it and shuffle about in such a small office, oui?"
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| "I should certainly hope that I have made an impression on people, monsieur Alexander; impressions are priceless in addition to being free."
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