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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    Robert Jordan
    “He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

    -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”
    ― Robert Jordan, A Memory of Light
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    Plato
    “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome
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    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: books, mind
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    Robert Jordan
    “There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
    tags: manhood
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    George R.R. Martin
    “What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    Rudyard Kipling
    “Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
    And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
    As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
    For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
    ― Rudyard Kipling
    tags: dogs, show-love-for-dogs
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    George R.R. Martin
    “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: friendship, loneliness
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
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    Robert Jordan
    “He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”
    ― Robert Jordan, New Spring
    tags: drowning, expectations, jordan, lan, new-spring, overwhelmed, robert, wheel-of-time, wot
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    Robert Jordan
    “Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
    ― Robert Jordan
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
    'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Robert Jordan
    “One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
    ― Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
    tags: inspirational, lord-of-chaos, military, military-quote, one-more-dance, robert-jordan
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    Robert Jordan
    “You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Shadow Rising
    tags: love
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    Robert Jordan
    “I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
    ― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
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    George R.R. Martin
    “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: hurt, pain, perfect, truthful
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    Plato
    “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
    ― Plato, The Republic
    tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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    George R.R. Martin
    “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
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    George R.R. Martin
    “People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
    tags: human-nature, people, truth
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    Stephen King
    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark-tower, horror
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    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
    tags: belief, gods, ideas
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    Neil Gaiman
    “All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
    tags: humanity
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    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
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    Ray Bradbury
    “Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
    tags: the-fire-balloons
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    Ray Bradbury
    “I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
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