The Revenge of One Humiliated
I hear her voice telling me: "Vengeance, my dear, is like poison. It never kills the one you want to kill; it kills the one who drinks it."
And I wonder if I am dying, slowly, surely, with every company I acquire, with every enemy I destroy, with every man who comes begging in my office and leaves in pieces. I wonder if this is the price of power, this inner death, this gradual freezing over of everything that was warm in me, everything that was alive, everything that was human.