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“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”

~Friedrich Nietzsche

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How the soldiers fall, whose god and faith is the Czar.
The Czar is angry:  let us die, and make the Czar happy. – Adam Mickiewicz

I’ve allowed myself to be seduced by things that glitter along the path, not fully realizing that not all things that glitter are gold.

Where are you headed and how will you get there? And what does it matter in the end, the prince and the pauper travel different roads to reach the same end, buried six feet beneath cold earth, food for the worms and a silent eternity.