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Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they__e sold out, and the more you__e acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it__ like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity _ at least that__ what they imagine.
David Lagercrantz The Girl in the Spider's Web
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Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they__e sold out, and the more you__e acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it__ like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity _ at least that__ what they imagine.
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David Lagercrantz

The Girl in the Spider's Web

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