He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

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He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you.

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And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. correction He who fights with beasts should look in to that he himself doesn't become a beast. If you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

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Gaze long into the abyss, and the abyss gazes into you

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