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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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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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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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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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