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Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes: Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.
         

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.


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This place is full of unwritten rules.



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Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.



The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.



It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.



No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.

No, every person on this planet has darkness inside them. Buried so deep that only you know it's there when your world is coming to an end. Oh, but it's there. It's always there.



Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.



When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.



You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.



Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.



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But nobody can run from their own demons.





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