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The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
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
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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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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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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.
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I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
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Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex
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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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Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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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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If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
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Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
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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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All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
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