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You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

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Brent Weeks
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 7
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Montana
United States
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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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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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Why do you keep saying incarnations like I’m some kind of god?” It wasn’t a great question, but the real questions were so big that Kylar didn’t even know how ask them. “You are worshipped in a few remote areas where your master wasn’t very careful about showing the full extent of his powers.” “What?!
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The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.
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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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A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
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one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.
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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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Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
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When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.
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There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.
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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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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
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Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.
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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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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.
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