Humankind is but the pieces in a game, plastic soldiers waging war between boy gods.
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
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I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
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