“Existence is its own justification, need is right.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 8 (p. 261)
“But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.”
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Steven Erikson
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House of Chains
House of Chains (2002)
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