“The crime,” said the Jacynth softly, “is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.”

— Jack Vance , book To Live Forever

Source: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XI, section 2

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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