"Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly"
"It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us."
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Source: Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation”, p.25, Harper Collins
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