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NOTES OF A CROCODILE BY QIU MIAOJIN
βCruelty and mercy are one and the same. Existence in this world relegates good and evil to the exact same status. Cruelty and evil are only natural, and together they are endowed with half the power and half the utility in this world. It seems Iβm going to have to learn to be crueler if…
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