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... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

David Gemmell

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David Gemmell
Age: 57 †
Born: 1948
Born: August 1
Died: 2006
Died: July 28
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London
England
David Andrew Gemmell
Ross Harding
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Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.
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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
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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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I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.
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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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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.
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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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Hate is the father of all evil.
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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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