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Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.

Robert Jordan

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Sadder
Battle
Lost

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Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose.
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You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.
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It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
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