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Alison Croggon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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Librettist
Novelist
Poet
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Transvaal
South Africa
Tongued
Triple
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Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous it may never be possible it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.
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There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice, Cadvan said. The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice.
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Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.
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There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.
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It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.
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Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.
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By the light, he said, when he had mastered himself. I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.
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Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow. -Hem at Zelika's grave
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Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky!
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You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
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It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt, said Saliman quietly. The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.
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At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.
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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
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There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
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It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.
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I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
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While the heart beats, hope lingers.
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I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck
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The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.
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