‘Follow your passion’ is dangerous advice.”
“Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”
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“Wyrd bið ful āræd. Fate is inexorable.”
― Warriors of the Storm
― Warriors of the Storm
“A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.”
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“There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, 'These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever of the opposite of a bird of prey must be good?', there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument - though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, 'Wehave nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.”
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