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May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

David Gemmell

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
Author
Writer
London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
Dreams
True
Dream
May
Come
Without
Life

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How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.
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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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You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.
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The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
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We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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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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Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.
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Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
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When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.
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Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.
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The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.
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I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.
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A warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
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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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Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others and I count myself among them are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
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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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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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