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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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Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk a...

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Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destr...

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... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.

When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief ...

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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the AN...

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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No...

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation...

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I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears p...

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He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the u...

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises ...

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Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself wit...

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Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, toleran...

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I know that the Kaiser incarnates all there is of brute force and of murder. And yet I would not, if...

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By Hecate, the goddess I worship more than all the others, the one I choose to help me in this work,...

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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed i...

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool y...

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The best revenge is massive success.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, ...

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Frederick RolfeChronicles of the House of Borgia

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end...

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Living well is the best revenge.

The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no suc...

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I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think you...

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Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the B...

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It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the...

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Flies are the dead man's revenge.

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombi...

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-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you h...

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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...

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Harlan EllisonThe Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said.“Winsto...

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Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a bil...

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It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully...

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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civili...

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Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intent...

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Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a ...

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J. P. DonleavyThe Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York

When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfat...

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Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is some...

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James MaceSoldier of Rome: The Legionary

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand...

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It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...

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