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[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

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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Albany
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Morgan Ives
Miriam Gardner
John Dexter
Lee Chapman
Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.
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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.
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... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones
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Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
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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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Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.
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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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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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