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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.
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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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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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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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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You are getting too old for this. A man is as old as he feels, woman! And how old do you feel? About ninety.
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I underestimated you, woman. ... The cry of men down the ages.
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No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.
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Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.
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While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.
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Death haunts everyone and never fails.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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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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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.
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Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.
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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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