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Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruel...

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No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do...

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Mervyn PeakeBoy in Darkness and Other Stories

What is your itinerary?""To meet my maker.""Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to...

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I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a...

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Muhammad AliThe Greatest My Own Story

Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto ...

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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...

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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries ...

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People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge...

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Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuri...

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for ...

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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

One other question. Would it be acceptable to destroy a universe in the name of a greater love?” The...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Winner Stands Alone

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriat...

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It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible.("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

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Robert Barr (writer)Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cart...

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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted...

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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from withi...

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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the...

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Scott LynchThe Lies of Locke Lamora

Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man...

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It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.For every one of us, living in th...

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For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in...

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Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted ...

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Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.

Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for t...

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I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

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Stephen KingRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

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Stephen KingWolves of the Calla

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, b...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in ...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclo...

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Any one war seems rooted in its antecedents.

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T. H. WhiteThe Candle in the Wind

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards.

And now I demand that you do what the ignorant might feel is the easier thing. You must refrain from...

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Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one...

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Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.For h...

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Thomas KydThe Spanish Tragedy

Kindly permit me to tell you, sir, that I hate you. I hate you and your child, as I hate the life of...

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Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

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I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet ...

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One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he...

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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Sta...

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I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in ...

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As for Iago’s jealousy, one cannot believe that a seriously jealous man could behave towards his wif...

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I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it...

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W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short Stories: Volume 1

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up...

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Revenge is a feast for thegods!

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

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Walter ScottThe Heart of Mid-Lothian

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our...

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I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the sam...

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AesopAesop's Fables

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I writ...

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To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Oh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...

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How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects ...

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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.

Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge.

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Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A de...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited l...

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Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

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Anne LamottTraveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Only Catherine has the capacity to change and mature, although here...our heroine pays a dear price ...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that th...

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I have learned that it is one thing to kill in battle, to send a brave man's soul to the corpse hall...

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I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I ...

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Bernard CornwellWarriors of the Storm

I can't let my mother's death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil ...

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They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

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Bob MonkhouseCrying With Laughter: My Life Story

Revenge loses sight of the end in the means, but it's end is not wholly bad - it wants the evil of t...

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I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to fin...

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And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe tha...

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Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; w...

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...

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We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's...

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And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in...

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YOUNG MORTIMER:Thou proud disturber of thy country's peace,Corrupter of thy king, cause of these bro...

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This tottered ensign of my ancestorsWhich swept the desert shore of that dead seaWhereof we got the ...

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