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Where, I wonder and I fear, does hubris end and reality overwhelm? Is this the danger of reaching too high, or am I bounded by fear that will hold me too low? Once
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There must be more than distant hopes to sustain the joy of life. Seize
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There's something weird going on down here. I don't know what Lando's got us into, but I've got a--" "Bad feeling about it?" Anakin finished, managing a sheepish grin at stealing his father's trademark line."
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Are you so eager for war?" the drow asked, his face barely an inch from the elf's. "Do you long to hear the screams of the dying, lying helplessly in fields amidst rows and rows of corpses? Have you ever borne witness to that?" "Orcs!" the elf protested. Drizzt grabbed him in both hands, pulled him forward, and slammed him back against the wall. Hralien called to Drizzt, but the dark elf hardly heard it. "I have ventured outside of the Silv..
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a person could always pretend that some future event would solve many more problems than the realization of such an event could ever bring. Drizzt
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No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. And that, I fear, for any reasoning, conscious being, would be the cruelest trick of all. --
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Who among us has not wondered if all the world is no more than a personal dream?
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No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic,
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There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent who strives to make a true friend of his or her child may well sacrifice authority, and though that parent may be comfortable with surrendering the dominant position, the unintentional result will be to steal from that child the necessary guidance and, more importantly, the sense of security the parent is supposed t..
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The best tests of character and commitment always came in moments of great stress and the most revealing moments often came in times when a person was pushed to anger.
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The halfling was still standing, trying to straighten his dishevelled hat and fix the broken orange feather. "You know," he said nonchalantly, "sometimes is not so bad to be short." Luthien"
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Friendship: the word has come to mean many different things among the various races and cultures of both the Underdark and the surface of the Realms. In Menzoberranzan, friendship is generally born out of mutual profit. While both parties are better off for the union, it remains secure. But loyalty is not a tenet of drow life, and as soon as a friend believes that he will gain more without the other, the union - and likely the other's life ..
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drizzt
forgotten-realms
salvatore
exile
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My papa halfling," he answered, imitating Oliver's thick accent. "And"
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Oh, by Moradin's itchy arse," grumbled Bruenor. "Scratched it, he did, and this one fell out."
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They live with the belief that anything is acceptable if you can get away with it, that self-gratification is the most important aspect of existence, and that power comes only to she or he who is strong enough and cunning enough to snatch it from the failing hands of those who no longer deserve
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The person who values community will oft be deceived and destroyed by the knave whose heart lies in selfish ambitions. For
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If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. --Drizzt Do'Urden
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while change is not always growth, growth is always rooted in change.
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More importantly, we reduce the beauty of the universe around us to fit our hopes and to chase away our fears.
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any hope of prescience requires a constant questioning of what is, and a deep-seated belief in the possibility of what can be.
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It is difficult to realize that you cannot win every battle for every friend. It is difficult to understand and accept your own limitations, and with them, the recognition that while you try to do the best you can, it will often prove inadequate. And
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Let us say that we did battle, and I emerged the victor. By your reasoning, I would thus become the rightful King of Vaa-oh, wait. I see now. That would not serve, since I haven't the proper bloodline. What a cunning system you have there. You and all the other self-proclaimed royalty of Faerun. By your conditions, you alone are kings and queens and lords and ladies of court. You alone matter, while the peasant grovels and kneels in the mud..
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entreri
sellswords
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Every wrinkle is earned, my love. Day by day, we spend our time together, and the changes that come will be well earned. In your heart you know that I love you, and I have no doubt but that my love will grow with the passage of years.
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The future is made of the actions of the present, each and every one, the choices of the moment inadvertently strung together to produce the desired trail. To live each and every day in the best possible manner would afford her a life without regret, and a life without regret was the key to an acceptance of inevitable death. And
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She slid out from under Drizzt's arm, raised up on one elbow, and kissed him on the ear. "I will always love you, Drizzt Do'Urden," she said. "My life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love." She"
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There is a moment when a man thinks he's going to die when he's terrified," Drizzt replied. "Then there is a moment when a man is sure he's going to die when he's outraged. That moment, upon the Luskar right now, is the time of greatest courage and the time when enemies should quiver in fear."
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Meddlers, both, we be, and always with the hope that our meddling will leave in our wake a more beautiful tapestry than that we first encountered.
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Seize the moment and seize the day. Revel in the joy and fight all the harder against despair. I
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When self-indulgence rules, then all the community loses, and in the end, those striving for personal gains are left with nothing of any real value. Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship. Thus, we must overcome that selfishness and we must try; we must care.
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Neverwinter Wood
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Because emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as an historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy. It is to know the past and to use such relevant history as a template for expectations. It is, most of all, to force reason ahead of instinct, to refuse to demonize that which you hate, and to, most of all, accept your own fallibility. And
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Friends help when they are not asked." Entreri"
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We all believe that we can defeat that plague or that disease, should it befall us, through sheer willpower. It is a common mental defense against the inevitability we all know we share. I wonder, then, if the worst reality of a lingering death is the sense that your own body is beyond your ability to control. In
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Death is the ultimate barrier, and when faced with impending death, personally or for someone you love, a mortal being will encounter, most of all, ultimate humility. We
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R.A. Salvatore |
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even the short-lived humans divide their lives into segments, though they rarely recognize the transient truth as they move through one or another stage of their existence.
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Reality is a curious thing. Truth is not as solid and universal as any of us would like it to be; selfishness guides perception, and perception invites justification. The physical image in the mirror, if not pleasing, can be altered by the mere brush of fingers through hair. And so it is true that we can manipulate our own reality. We can persuade, even deceive. We can make others view us in dishonest ways. We can hide selfishness with char..
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The point of self-reflection is, foremost, to clarify and to find honesty. Self-reflection is the way to throw self-lies out and face the truth--however painful it might be to admit that you were wrong. We seek consistency in ourselves, and so when we are faced with inconsistency, we struggle to deny. Denial has no place in self-reflection, and so it is incumbent upon a person to admit his errors, to embrace them and to move along in a more..
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Any watching the battle would have found no breath in the next few blurring moments. Never had the Underdark witnessed such a vicious fight as when these two masters of the blade each attacked the demon possessing the other--and himself.
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Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience and the poor man's armor. It cannot be broken and it cannot be taken away.
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spirit
inspiring
exile
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R.A. Salvatore |
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There is freedom in seeing the world as a painting in progress, instead of a place already painted,
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R.A. Salvatore |
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Profound pain is often the unavoidable reality of conscious existence.
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R.A. Salvatore |
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If we act in a goodly way because we are afraid of how we will feel if we do not, then we have not truly come to separate the concept of right and wrong.
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R.A. Salvatore |
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I do not leave enemies alive in my wake." "I"
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Sydney, just outside the doorway, was likewise distracted, for the battle between the dark elf and Entreri was unlike anything she had ever seen, two master swordsmen weaving and parrying in absolute harmony.
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