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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.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Cannot
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Grieve
Grieving
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Sorry
Judging
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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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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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