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A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
Steve Rune Lundin
Steve Lundin
Ends
Insignificance
Frozen
Celebration
Wonder
Faces
Death

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Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
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Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
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Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.
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One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
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Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.
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And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.
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First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners
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I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.
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