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Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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Marion Zimmer Bradley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1930
Born: June 3
Died: 1999
Died: September 25
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Morgan Ives
Miriam Gardner
John Dexter
Lee Chapman
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.
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Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.
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A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
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I never left you I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.
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All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.
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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
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The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.
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And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.
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