The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

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My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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Some things are hard to let go of.

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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

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