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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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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.
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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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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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Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.
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The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
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The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death.
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The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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Never gamble without knowing a back way out.
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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.
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The end is near, Moridin said. The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.
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You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me.
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Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess
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Any day you wake up, maybe you die.
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
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If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
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