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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
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Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
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A man must know his limitations.
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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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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.
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Plan for the worst, expect the best.
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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
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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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Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
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I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
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When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
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Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.
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May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
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Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.
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I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best.
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The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.
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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.
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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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She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.
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