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Odd, how different different men's fears could be.
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He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
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Sometimes, Skorous," Draco said, "you are a fool.""Sometimes I am not alone in that."
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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
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True beauty is always oddly surprising.
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All my life," I said, "knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready."
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Tanith Lee |
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Don't judge yourself," he said. "None of us are ever good at it."
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Such an accusation is as stupid as it is absurd.
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Tanith Lee |
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I have a plan," said Xaros, "improbable only in its genius."
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Tanith Lee |
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Men think for themselves when they're men.
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Can I appeal?""None whatsoever."
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The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
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Night, the dark widow, came walking on the hills.
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Tanith Lee |
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It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
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Who knew? If the illusion is quite perfect, who is to say it is not real?
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When a road is very dark it is hard to see the milestones on it.
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What Is, is, what Was, was, but what is To Be, may be otherwise.
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Tanith Lee |
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We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
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Tanith Lee |
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Precognition or self-deception?
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Tanith Lee |
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Power is the wine after which all other wine is mud.
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Tanith Lee |
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I have seen women who thought they loved me look at me that way, and wolves which were hungry.
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Tanith Lee |
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Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.
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Tanith Lee |
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I had a rare wine in my blood. Expiation was over, guilt washed out, terror canceled.
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Tanith Lee |
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The absolute, as I had finally been shown, does not need the accompaniment of pipes and drums.
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He said quietly, "I see a jackal running. His name is I remember."
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Tanith Lee |
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I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.
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Tanith Lee |
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This much poison cannot pour in one's ears without it will leave some trace.
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Tanith Lee |
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Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
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To be dead was a state which played odd tricks on dreams of vengeance.
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Tanith Lee |
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Sorcery is a strong wine, and you are drunk on it.""Do not anticipate I shall sober."
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Tanith Lee |
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The stink of madness is unsubtle here. Let us be going.
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Tanith Lee |
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Human aspiration is often blind, its motto: I want, therefore I will have.
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Tanith Lee |
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The deeds of conquest and omnipotence have a sameness, as does the exposition of most evil.
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Tanith Lee |
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Though they were beautiful, so are fires and leopards.
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Tanith Lee |
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Truth is at the door, howling and stamping her foot. Truth is not always decorous.
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Tanith Lee |
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Fashions change. Even in mythology.
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Tanith Lee |
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He walked up to the high roof where the beacon was lit at night to jog the gods' amnesia.
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Tanith Lee |
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The demons had invented love. There needs to be said no more.
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Tanith Lee |
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Your beauty leaves me breathless," said Pereban."Yet you find the breath to say so."
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Tanith Lee |
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He took her virginity with the gentle care of love, and with love's glorious violence.
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Tanith Lee |
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The gods' inventions are notorious by their errors.
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Tanith Lee |
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If she had supposed the gods ever listened, she would have prayed.
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