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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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8fba76d
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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.
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fba403b
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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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hope
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16c468f
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There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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b638977
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All gods are one god.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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446dd6a
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Love is the only prayer I know.
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prayer
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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216d124
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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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e090901
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They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, 'they have found them too difficult. They want a God who will care for them, who will not demand that they struggle for enlightenment, but who will accept them just as they are, with all their sins, and take away their sins with repentance. It is not so, it will never be so, but perhaps it is the only way the unenlightened can bear to think of their Gods.' Lancelot smiled bitterly. 'Perhaps ..
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religion
salvation
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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1d803c8
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all the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world ...
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c0796b6
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By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
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faith
philosophy
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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d3f7bf4
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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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good-and-evil
lancelet
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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4144956
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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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6e6468f
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I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself
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morgaine
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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3596896
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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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morgaine
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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37a1824
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Never name the well from which you will not drink.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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748f07d
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And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.
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avalon
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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8b4b494
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Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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d9b7184
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For this is the thing the priests do not know, with their One God and One Truth; that there is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you, and whether, at the end, you arrive at the Holy Isle of Eternity or among the priests with their bells and their death and their Satan and hell and damnation...but perh..
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I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on their learning will learn, I trust, to listen to their priests for the true interpretations.' The Merlin smiled gently. 'I cannot join you in that wish, brother. I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. B..
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pagan
merlin
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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739e847
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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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1b2e2f9
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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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sorcery
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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0cca254
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My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.
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prayer
love
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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fc80e4e
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Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
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magic
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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1dc0576
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,
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c2c30b5
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Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
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fate
merlin
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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07d2846
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But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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04ebee9
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The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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9ea8d5e
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You speak of afraid. Yet fear is something you generate in yourself, from your mind's lack of control; and you will learn to look at it and discover for yourself when you choose to be afraid. The first thing you must do is acknowledge that the fear is yours, and you can bid it come and go at will. Begin with this; whenever you feel fear that prevents choice say to yourself: 'What has made me feel fear? Why have I chosen to feel this fear ..
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fear-of-failure
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45e2eb8
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Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.
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morgaine
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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c2485fd
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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.
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priestess
pagan
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097d58f
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Avalon will always be there for all men to find if they can seek the way thither, throughout all the ages past the ages. If they cannot find the way to Avalon, it is a sign, perhaps, that they are not ready." - Kevin"
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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c4b003c
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Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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19e4779
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Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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7c516d5
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Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encr..
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history
visceral-imagery
italy
language
rome
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98159dd
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Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
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life
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a6cdd93
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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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And as men believe, so their world goes." - Merlin"
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world
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8e32de6
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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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gawaine
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9c64de2
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And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have..
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karma
meaning
life
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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2ab8dca
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I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully..
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pg-57
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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3f5b74a
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A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly
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le-fay
morgaine
morgana
arthurian-legend
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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5673800
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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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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ...
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life
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