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This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

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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
Fiction
Lives
Change
Soul
Feed
Real
Souls
Fantasy
Magic

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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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It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.
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Every little bit of good I may do, let me do it now for I may not come this way again.
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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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Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.
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Hate is the father of all evil.
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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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I caught a pebble in the moonlight.
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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 warrior...must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
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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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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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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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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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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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Blood always aids blood, my friend.
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