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Steven Erikson Quote: “Is possession a virtue? Is a lifetime of working for some rich toad a virtue? Is loyal employment in some merchant house a virtue? Loyal to what? To whom? Oh, have they paid for that loyalty with a hundred docks a week? Like any other commodity? But then, which version is truer – the virtue of self-serving acquisitiveness or the virtue of loyalty to one’s employer? Are.”

401. “Is possession a virtue? Is a lifetime of working for some rich toad a virtue? Is loyal employment in some merchant house a virtue? Loyal to what? To whom? Oh, have they paid for that loyalty with a hundred docks a week? Like any other commodity? But then, which version is truer – the virtue of self-serving acquisitiveness or the virtue of loyalty to one’s employer? Are.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts.”

402. “The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Oh, what a miserable man you are! If you’re wrong and he tries to bite me, I will be very upset with you, Mok. I will lay waste to your loins. I will make your eyes crossed so that everyone who looks at you and your silly mask will not be able to help but laugh. And I will think of other things, too, I assure you.”

403. “Oh, what a miserable man you are! If you’re wrong and he tries to bite me, I will be very upset with you, Mok. I will lay waste to your loins. I will make your eyes crossed so that everyone who looks at you and your silly mask will not be able to help but laugh. And I will think of other things, too, I assure you.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.”

404. “I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he’s lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness?”

405. “Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he’s lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness?”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn’t there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.”

406. “Fanaticism was so popular. There had to be a reason for that, didn’t there? Some vast reward to the end of thinking, some great bliss to the blessing of idiocy.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Too old to dream of perfection, perhaps, she had instead discovered a certain delicious appeal in flaws.”

407. “Too old to dream of perfection, perhaps, she had instead discovered a certain delicious appeal in flaws.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets.”

408. “Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Just so. And wonder, my friend, is the intellect’s most feared foe. Its path is love, and love is the language of humility. The rational mind would stand over it with a bloodstained sword, and in the empty bleakness of its eyes you will see its triumph.”

409. “Just so. And wonder, my friend, is the intellect’s most feared foe. Its path is love, and love is the language of humility. The rational mind would stand over it with a bloodstained sword, and in the empty bleakness of its eyes you will see its triumph.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “I was once told that dreams are worthy things,” said Emancipor, “even if they end up in misery and unending horror.” “Ah, and who told you that?” He shrugged. “My wife.”

410. “I was once told that dreams are worthy things,” said Emancipor, “even if they end up in misery and unending horror.” “Ah, and who told you that?” He shrugged. “My wife.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice – especially when it’s to the contrary.”

411. “People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice – especially when it’s to the contrary.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “And somehow they would be less than human then. The game the mind must play to unleash destruction.”

412. “And somehow they would be less than human then. The game the mind must play to unleash destruction.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome.”

413. “Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.”

414. “Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “How many of us bow before a god in the desperate hope that we can somehow shape our fate? Praying to that familiar face pushes away our terror of the unknown – the unknown being the future. Who knows, maybe these Tiste Andii are the only ones among us all who see the truth, the truth being oblivion.”

415. “How many of us bow before a god in the desperate hope that we can somehow shape our fate? Praying to that familiar face pushes away our terror of the unknown – the unknown being the future. Who knows, maybe these Tiste Andii are the only ones among us all who see the truth, the truth being oblivion.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Bloodflies rode her drawn gasps into her mouth, biting as she gagged and spat.”

416. “Bloodflies rode her drawn gasps into her mouth, biting as she gagged and spat.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.”

417. “To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “So you ain’t nearly as good as you think you are. What a shock. Look at your clothes and armour – you’re chopped to pieces, O mighty assassin.”

418. “So you ain’t nearly as good as you think you are. What a shock. Look at your clothes and armour – you’re chopped to pieces, O mighty assassin.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Laughing, he’d flung dense clouds of earth and stone skyward to blind them.”

419. “Laughing, he’d flung dense clouds of earth and stone skyward to blind them.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “What is given away for free comes back wounded. Value is not always shared and some hands are rougher than others.”

420. “What is given away for free comes back wounded. Value is not always shared and some hands are rougher than others.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “And so, yet again, we crush the blossom in our hand, lift our gaze from the tumbling petals, and ask the world, ‘Where, then, is this beauty you promised?”

421. “And so, yet again, we crush the blossom in our hand, lift our gaze from the tumbling petals, and ask the world, ‘Where, then, is this beauty you promised?”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light.”

422. “Kneels? Falters? Look to the night sky, foolish man, and gauge the victor in the contest between Dark and Light.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “And we’re not talking mild snoring, either. Imagine being chained to the floor of a cave, with the tide crashing in, louder, louder, louder –.”

423. “And we’re not talking mild snoring, either. Imagine being chained to the floor of a cave, with the tide crashing in, louder, louder, louder –.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The door flew open, carrying into the room a gust of steamy air and then Trotts.”

424. “The door flew open, carrying into the room a gust of steamy air and then Trotts.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.”

425. “He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Autumn rains drumming overhead, they had squatted in a half-circle, facing north, and watched as seven robed and hooded figures approached.”

426. “Autumn rains drumming overhead, they had squatted in a half-circle, facing north, and watched as seven robed and hooded figures approached.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,’ observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. ‘All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.”

427. “The drunk answers every assault with smirking equanimity,’ observed Haut, pouring his cup full again. ‘All reasoned words thud like pebbles in the sand. Made immune, I imbibe the nectar of the gods.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “But the value was an illusion. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the feeling of satiation, even as his spirit starves.”

428. “But the value was an illusion. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the feeling of satiation, even as his spirit starves.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.”

429. “Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.”

430. “The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Age was a demon, a haunting that slipped into the bones whispering weakness and frailty. It stole his muscles, his agility, and the quickness of his wit. It seemed a miserable reward for surviving, all things told, which was proof enough that life was a fool’s bargain.”

431. “Age was a demon, a haunting that slipped into the bones whispering weakness and frailty. It stole his muscles, his agility, and the quickness of his wit. It seemed a miserable reward for surviving, all things told, which was proof enough that life was a fool’s bargain.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “He’d forgotten how irritating company could be. Uninvited, unwelcome, persistent reminder of his own weaknesses. And.”

432. “He’d forgotten how irritating company could be. Uninvited, unwelcome, persistent reminder of his own weaknesses. And.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The historian, now witness, stumbling in the illusion that he will survive. Long enough to set the details down on parchment in the frail belief that truth is a worthwhile cause. That the tale will become a lesson heeded. Frail belief? Outright lie, a delusion of the worst sort. The lesson of history is that no one learns.”

433. “The historian, now witness, stumbling in the illusion that he will survive. Long enough to set the details down on parchment in the frail belief that truth is a worthwhile cause. That the tale will become a lesson heeded. Frail belief? Outright lie, a delusion of the worst sort. The lesson of history is that no one learns.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks – all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.”

434. “Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks – all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “My inability to find peace, to trust it when I do find it, and to hold on to it.”

435. “My inability to find peace, to trust it when I do find it, and to hold on to it.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “I would hold, my friend, that what you describe is but one side of the matter, and indeed one that looks only inward, as if the borders of your life enclose everything to be valued, while what lies beyond is of no worth whatsoever.”

436. “I would hold, my friend, that what you describe is but one side of the matter, and indeed one that looks only inward, as if the borders of your life enclose everything to be valued, while what lies beyond is of no worth whatsoever.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The bully’s greatest terror,′ Bugg said, ‘comes when he meets someone bigger and meaner –.”

437. “The bully’s greatest terror,′ Bugg said, ‘comes when he meets someone bigger and meaner –.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The blood in the fine, white sand was only a few hours old, still gummy to the touch. The stench of loosened bowels soured the hazy air.”

438. “The blood in the fine, white sand was only a few hours old, still gummy to the touch. The stench of loosened bowels soured the hazy air.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “A chill crept over Duiker. Even wheeled hospitals carried with them that pervasive atmosphere of fear, the sounds of defiance and the silence of surrender. Mortality’s many comforting layers had been stripped away, revealing wracked bones, a sudden comprehension of death that throbbed like an exposed nerve.”

439. “A chill crept over Duiker. Even wheeled hospitals carried with them that pervasive atmosphere of fear, the sounds of defiance and the silence of surrender. Mortality’s many comforting layers had been stripped away, revealing wracked bones, a sudden comprehension of death that throbbed like an exposed nerve.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The girl stopped to regard him, her small round face slowly coming to mirror Paran’s own frown.”

440. “The girl stopped to regard him, her small round face slowly coming to mirror Paran’s own frown.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god’s hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.”

441. “The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god’s hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Fiddler straightened, eyes on the stars glittering overhead. Desert stars, sharp diamonds that ever seemed eager to draw blood.”

442. “Fiddler straightened, eyes on the stars glittering overhead. Desert stars, sharp diamonds that ever seemed eager to draw blood.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Never bargain with a man who has nothing to lose.”

443. “Never bargain with a man who has nothing to lose.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous?”

444. “If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous?”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I am a Teblor – we live simply enough, and we see the cruelty of your so-called progress. Slaves, children in chains, a thousand lies to make one person better than the next, a thousand lies telling you this is how things should be, and there’s no stopping it.”

445. “There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I am a Teblor – we live simply enough, and we see the cruelty of your so-called progress. Slaves, children in chains, a thousand lies to make one person better than the next, a thousand lies telling you this is how things should be, and there’s no stopping it.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.”

446. “While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Lying with lovers also belonged to night, and that made sense, for it was in the midst of true darkness that the first fire of life was born, flickering awake to drive back the unchanging absence of light. To lie with a lover was to celebrate the creation of fire. From this in the flesh to the world beyond.”

447. “Lying with lovers also belonged to night, and that made sense, for it was in the midst of true darkness that the first fire of life was born, flickering awake to drive back the unchanging absence of light. To lie with a lover was to celebrate the creation of fire. From this in the flesh to the world beyond.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Eddies of dry wind whipped tatters of cloth and reed paper about in dancing circles.”

448. “Eddies of dry wind whipped tatters of cloth and reed paper about in dancing circles.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “We are nothing but our own needs. She but showed each of us the face we hide from ourselves and everyone else. She shamed us by exposing our truths.”

449. “We are nothing but our own needs. She but showed each of us the face we hide from ourselves and everyone else. She shamed us by exposing our truths.”

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Steven Erikson Quote: “Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required. To do this is to accept that planning begins at birth. You are born and before all else you are plunged into shadow, wrapped inside the holy ambivalence, there to suckle sweet sustenance.”

450. “Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required. To do this is to accept that planning begins at birth. You are born and before all else you are plunged into shadow, wrapped inside the holy ambivalence, there to suckle sweet sustenance.”

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