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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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