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That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like the wearing of sackcloth

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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
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