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Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profi

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. – Lewis H. Lapham

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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. – Graham Greene

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Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder. – Octave Mirbeau

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? – William Shakespeare

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