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Life is for those that deserve it. Those kings amongst men who can climb out of barrels and will dare to break through glass walls and to transcend all of this whatever it is, these eyes to the ground, this pretence, acting only as is expected and never as is intended. We have been told what is acceptable in what situation and so we take heed. This is not living. In the real world, in nature, there is no need to pretend. There is no place for it.

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Oli Anderson

Synchronesia: A Depressing Existential Novel

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Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?___h it will, sir; there__ no denying that._ Captain Chillingworth__ words emerged very slowly, as if they had been pulled up from a deep well of bitterness. __ am sure it will do a great deal of good for some of us. But I doubt I__l be of that number, or that many Chinamen will. The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.