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Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.
David Gemmell
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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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You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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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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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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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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Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.
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A problem shared is a problem doubled.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.
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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
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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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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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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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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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The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.
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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.
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Blood always aids blood, my friend.
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No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.
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