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What is your name? Why? So I can mark your grave.

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
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David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
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This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
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I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
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The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
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Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.
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Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.
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There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.
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A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.
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The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.
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... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
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It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.
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I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
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Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.
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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
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