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If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ...
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You are sensitive - but make that your servant, not your master.
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Think not that you can direct my steps! If you come with me - you follow!
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I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
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He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger.
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The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.
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ghosts. He had learned a little of the history of Halyn House
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But even the longest day wears to sunset.
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All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.
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What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
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Men are by nature wanderers ... Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.
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Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
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Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.
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For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new. And
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No man or woman can live another's fate
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They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that comes not twice to any man
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God is one and there is but one God - all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand ...
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The friendship of a Comyn lord is as the sweetness of a beehive: it bears a deadly sting!
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And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.
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Men destroy only what they fear.
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There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever
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If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.
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The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
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Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
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Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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The careful observance of discipline is the mark of the artiste.
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Love is the only prayer I know.
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If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it ...
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Was she mad, with her fancies of shared destiny and the other half of her soul?
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She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.
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they've put a price on my head because, like all governments who buy brains, they like to limit what the brains are used for.
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Perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.
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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
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No house is big enough for the rule of two women.
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Grateful love and thanks. And last but not least to my elder son, David, for his careful preparation of the final manuscript.
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Look to the east," she said, "for always, while the light dies in the west, there is the promise of rebirth from the east.
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A woman is never free to bear a child unless she is also free to abort it.
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I never left you; I never will leave you. While life lasts, and beyond, I am here.
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Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?
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Leave tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow's men to solve.
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Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
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I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
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Sin is in the wish to do no harm.
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On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.
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Without a dream to light your way, the word is a very dark place.
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Has become their one diversion, their one pleasure - their religion.
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He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
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The symbol of the dragon should be always before them, that mankind seek to accomplish, not to think of sin and do penance!
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If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.
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And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin
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All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world ...
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If, she thought, you can call a man your lover when you have never exchanged a single kiss.
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Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.
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The Gods give of their best, not their worst, to men!
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Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.
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Or is it only that there are so few of us, now, who were young together?
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...it was an old saying: three could keep a secret if but two of them lay in their graves...
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I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.
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Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.
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There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!
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I wasn't a child at 13, were you?
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A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go ...
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Never name the well from which you will not drink.
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Customs have no reason; they simply are.
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Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.
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And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference ...
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The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.
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All gods are one god.
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My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.
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Lancelet's skin was so soft - she had thought all men were like Arthur, sunburnt and hairy, but his body was smooth as a child's.
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I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!
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I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs.
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A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
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My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
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Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.
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If I, who am rhu'ad, do not break the laws," she said, "then no one will ever dare to break them, and our planet will stagnate in dead traditions.
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The man who feels fear without cause is a fool; but the man is twice a fool who does not feel fear when there is cause.
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As life grew better, happier, safer, did it also lose some indefinable edge which made it worth living at all?
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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.
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I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.
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I learned only so great a love of music as to be discontented with my own sounds.
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Even fiction - perhaps especially fiction - has more truth in it than the author knows.
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it is the belief of mankind which shapes the world, and all of reality.
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I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.
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I never thought that I was very intelligent.
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the concept of monotheism
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The truth is not so good a story.
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