"That is part of it," Sinisa said. "Until the world sees sense and throws open its borders, someone must do what I do, operate the escape valve for those who need it. But more than that, it is because, to me, a comfortable life is no life at all. Have you ever seen war?"
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"Not really," I said, a little taken aback. "When I came here from Holland, as a peacekeeper, I was young, troubled, without direction. I drank too much. I took drugs. Do you know when that changed? The first time I was shot at, in Srebrenica. The intensity of it.
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Every breath, every motion, was an event, because I knew it might be my last. Most people in Holland, all the rich Western nations, they go decades without living as intensely as I did in those few seconds. After the war, Holland seemed a country of shadows. Meaningless.
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Like living without color. I decided then that I would not live half a life. I would not follow the laws that gray old men write because they are afraid. You have no place in this world, not truly, unless you have fought for it. A home is not a home unless you have conquered it.
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You have done nothing with your life unless you have built an empire from dust. One day your empire will crumble back to dust. One day it will be forgotten. One day you will die. That is not important. It is the fighting and the building that matter." - Blood Price, Jon Evans
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Wow, that's... completely irrelevant to your original tweet.pic.twitter.com/MfNxeJRrKD
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because our dude found adrenaline clarity to be a tremendous aid to resolving the issue of what he really feels like doing at the end of the day it might be a shit methodology talked up real pretty but then again it might not
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that was one of the ways that book was extremely good. that character, the "villain" of the story, was arguably right, as was the main character
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always the mark of quality
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