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As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It‘s not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination.

— Scott Lynch Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)

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I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?

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