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Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.
Brent Weeks
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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.
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Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.
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If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.
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Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.
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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules.... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
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My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?
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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.
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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.
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A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.
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You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request.
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The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.
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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.
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The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.
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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
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...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
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one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.
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