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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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Miriam Gardner
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Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley
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And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.
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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.
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All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.
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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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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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Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world.
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Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
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If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
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If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats ... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.
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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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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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... 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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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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