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What you want is what you cannot have. What you cannot have is what you want.

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
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Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
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No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand
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Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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I had long wondered, Lan said to Tam. About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know. Lan raised his own sword in salute.
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There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.
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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.
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You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
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It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.
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On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying
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Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
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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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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining.
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What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.
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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.
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