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Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 61
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Stunted
Reaches
Sunlight
Tree
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Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.
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Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.
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Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
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It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
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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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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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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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We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.
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There is no folly like the folly of the wise.
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Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
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What is fear but courage's shadow?
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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
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Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
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For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.
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