I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this how all plans developed, unknown to their maker until he wove for himself a parachute, or else melted into air? Viet Thanh Nguyen
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  1. As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?
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  3. This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.
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  5. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.
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