“Bitterness is not a philosophy, friend. Outrage is not an ethic. Stop counting corpses and reach a truce with the universe, or you’ll be stuck on the dung heap forever.”

Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 15 (p. 392)

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