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The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

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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.
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Leaves
Women
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Men
Finally
Appointed
Time
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For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you? Elayne asked. I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more.
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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth, Cauthon whispered. I consider our debt paid in full.
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It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.
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If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.
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You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
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