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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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