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Men destroy only what they fear.
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5a50895
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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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7c75b54
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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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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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fate
life
turns
path
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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.
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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom," Viviane said. "Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know."
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wisdom
knowledge
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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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I suppose all societies adapt their morals to their needs.
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For all the Gods are one God," she said to me then, as she had said many times before, and as I have said to my own novices many times, and as every priestess who comes after me will say again, "and all the Goddesses are one Goddess, and there is only one Initiator. And to every man his own truth, and the God within." --
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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.
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but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones
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But I am Niniane of Avalon, and I account to no man on this earth for what I do with what is mine -- yes, mine and not yours. I am not Roman, to let some man tell me what I may do with what the Goddess gave me
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I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies--but I don't use that kind of language in public.
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If he knew, if he was told in so many words, he would have to do the conventional thing, he would have to express the conventional shock and horror. But knowing without analyzing, knowing in a place that went deeper than words, he could see it, know it, accept it.
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By and large, the kind of science fiction which makes tomorrow's headlines as near as this morning's coffee has enlarged popular awareness of the modern, miraculous world of science we live in. It has helped generations of young people feel at age with a changing world. But fashions change, old loves return, and now that Sputniks clutter up the sky with new and unfamiliar moons, the readers of science fiction are willing to wait to read tom..
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the-future
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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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He said, and his voice was strained as if he had had a mortal wound, 'Gwenhwyfar-' He so seldom spoke her formal name, it was always my lady or my queen, or when he spoke to her in play it was always Gwen. When he spoke it now, it seemed to her she had never heard a sweeter sound. 'Gwenhwyfar. Why do you weep?' Now she must lie, and lie well, because, she could not in honor tell him the truth. She said, 'Because-' and stopped, and then, in ..
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gwenhwyfar
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Customs have no reason; they simply are.
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Fear was the worst thing. Fear would put her at the mercy of whatever misfortune came. Even the wild beasts could smell fear on your body and would come and attack, while they would flee from the courageous. This was why the bravest man could run among the deer with safety, so long as fear was not smelled on his skin
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He leaned his head in his hands, as if the burden he bore were too great for endurance. 'You are wise', he said, then raised his head and stared at her with unflinching hatred. 'I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you!
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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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mankind
light
darkness
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Pride, she thought drearily, was a cold bedfellow.
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Sin is in the wish to do no harm.
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What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone? Once I dwelt in the company of the king I loved well, And my arm was heavy with the weight of the rings he gave, And my heart weighed down with the gold of his love. The face the king is like the sun to those who surrounded,. But now my heart is empty And I wander along throughout the world. The groves take on their blossoms, The trees and meadows grow fair But the cuckoo, saddest of si..
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It had to do with the knowledge that the world was as it was because of what men believed it was... year by year, these past three or four generations, the minds of men had been hardened to believing that there was one God, one world, one way of describing reality, and that all things which intruded on the realm of that great one-ness must be evil and of the fiends, and that the sound of the bells and the shadow of their holy places would k..
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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." Lancelet smiled bitterly. "Perhaps ..
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doubt
religion
god
salvation
rebirth
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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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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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mankind
wanderers
land
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But if men do not believe in more than one life," Igraine protested, shaken, "how will they avoid despair? What just God would create some men wretched, and others happy and prosperous, if one life were all that they could have?"
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but the older priestesses had explained to her, as they gathered in the courtyard, that the Moon God was effacing the brightness of the Goddess, and she ran out with them joyously to join in the shrieks of the women to frighten him away. Later it had been explained to her how the sun and moon moved, and why, now and again, one of them crossed the face of the other; that it was in the way of nature, and the common people's beliefs about the ..
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Beat me instead," she cried, "It's not Darren's fault! I lost her, I let her go--I cannot be free, I must be chained inside a house and robbed of my hawk, you damned tyrant, but I will not have Preciosa chained too!"
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But I mind," Bart said savagely. "I'd like to see a world where I could have my picture taken, say, with Tommy on my lap if I want to. For every woman who got upset because I wasn't, shall we say, available for her romantic daydreams, there's be some young kid reading the papers and going to movies, and he'd be able to stop hating himself and say, 'Okay Bart Reeder is queer, and he's happy and successful, and he's getting along okay, so may..
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Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.
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It is hardly lonely in a nunnery, son, with other women. And God is there." Morgause said, "I would rather dwell in a hermitage in the forest than in a house full of chattering ladies! If God is there, it must be hard for him to get a word in edgewise!"
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women
humor
nuns
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Remain yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always find one friend who doesn't lie.
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For ever the world of Fairy drifts further from the world in which the Christ holds sway. I have no quarrel with the Christ, only with his priests, who call the Great Goddess a demon and deny that she ever held power in this world.
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All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.
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For lo, all the days of man are as a leaf that is fallen and as the grass that withereth. Thou too shalt be forgotten, like the flowers that falleth on the grass, like the wine that is poured out and soaks into the earth.
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Il mondo della Magia si allontana sempre di piu dal mondo dove regna il Cristo. Non ho nulla contro di lui, ma solo contro i suoi preti che negano il potere della Grande Dea oppure l'avvolgono nella veste azzurra della Signora di Nazareth e affermano che era vergine. Ma che cosa ne puo sapere una vergine delle sofferenze dell'umanita? E ora che il mondo e cambiato e Artu, mio fratello e amante, che fu re e che sara re, giace morto (e la gen..
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He was guarded behind a hundred fences of reserve and anger.
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I za men vremeto e vrag, no po drug nachin. Za ostanalite teche v edna posoka, a u men se g'rchi i izviva, bluzhdae k'm zemiata, l'deto "nikoga" e po-istinsko ot "sega" ..."
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Los dos se llamaban Rafael y ambos habian hecho un juramento, lucharon juntos, murieron y fueron enterrados en la misma tumba..." Como no sabia muy bien lo que hacia, extendio la mano hacia Regis y tomo la de el en la suya. Dijo, "Me gustaria morir asi. ?A ti no?"
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A king must protect his people from outsiders, from invaders, and lead his people to defend themselves--a king must be the first to thrust himself between the land and all danger, just as a farmer stands to defend his fields from any robber. But it is not his duty to dictate to them what their innermost hearts may do.
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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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