“The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
“While I live, every criminal must die.”
Reported in Will and Ariel Durant, Age of Reason Begins: Volume 7 (1961), p. 240.
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