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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people__ lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women__ faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.
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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people__ lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women__ faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.

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