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Wars come and go politics endure.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
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Wars
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Politics

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Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?
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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
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Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.
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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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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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Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
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