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I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.
Charles de Lint
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Charles de Lint
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 22
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Samuel M. Key
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The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.
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When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
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I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
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