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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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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Variation
Emerge
Theme
Patterns
Endless
Life
Circling
Anew
Returning

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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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The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart
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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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We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.
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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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To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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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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Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you
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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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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you
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Wars come and go politics endure.
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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
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We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
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To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
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Those that yield are not always weak
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