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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 61
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
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Wisdom
Happiness
Form
Love

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I would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one another. And today there was so much brightness.
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.
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We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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Wars come and go politics endure.
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme
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Garner knowledge, by any means possible
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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.
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We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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Those that yield are not always weak
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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
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