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Your face may be gone, but you know who you are.

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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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A man must know his limitations.
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Hate is the father of all evil.
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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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May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
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Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.
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What is your name? Why? So I can mark your grave.
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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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Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.
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None of us can choose the manner of our passing.
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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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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness.
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Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.
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Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
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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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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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The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
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Plan for the worst, expect the best.
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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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