Treasure Box (1996)
“All the years he’d spent fooling himself into thinking that what he did was correct was simply time wasted from his life, on delusions and fantasies that kept him from seeing what he was and where he was inevitably headed with genuine clarity.”
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 428)
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