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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.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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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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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.
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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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On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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