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It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Christopher Paolini

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Christopher Paolini
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: November 17
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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LA
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Christopher James Paolini
Inheritance
Hurts
Accomplishment
Folly
Measure
Unscathed
Hurt
Follies
Impossible
Accumulate
Life
Accomplishments

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Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.
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I'm healthy as an ox. And you? To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I'm fit as ever, if that is what you are asking.
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A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.
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Eragon looked back at him, confused. I don't understand. Of course you don't, said Brom impatiently. That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.
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Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.
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I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.
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Do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. Brom to Eragon
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Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.
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