The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.

A wise man transcends both thanatos and eros

I don’t naturally look like this. I have to feed in order to have the power to hold it.”
“Feed on what exactly?” Please don’t say blood, please don’t say blood, she whispered in her mind.
“Death,” Trajan answered. Anya didn’t know if that was better or worse.

From a springboard of thanatos (death wish), leap in to a sky of uncertainties and touch the star of glory or merge into the dust of peace.

They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love?