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If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.” “The Codes?” “No. The Way of Kings.” “That storming book.

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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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