“Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.”
Michael Swanwick book Stations of the Tide
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 2, “Witch Cults of Whitemarsh” (p. 26)
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”
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“Here one must leave behind all hesitation;
here every cowardice must meet its death.”
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto III, lines 14–15 (tr. Mandelbaum).
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