"We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere."
"I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events."
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Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century. Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.
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