| Lord Varys: I did what I did for the good of the realm.
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| Petyr '
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| Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm.
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| Do you know what the realm is?
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| It’s the thousand blades of Aegon’s enemies, a story we agree to tell each
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| other over and over, until we forget that it’s a lie.
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| Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie?
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| Chaos?
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| A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.
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| Petyr '
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| Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn’t a pit.
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| Chaos is a ladder.
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| Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again.
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| The fall breaks them. |