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That’s the danger of judging anything, thought Taleswapper: There are a hundred possible causes for every effect, and a hundred possible effects from every cause.
“there some great wisdom to be gained by calibrating exactly how worthless a mind I have?”
― Pathfinder
― Pathfinder
“For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
From me far off, with others all too near.”
― Shakespeare's Sonnets
“One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“I need a friend, and I have none to whom I can admit my weakness, my fear, my errors.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“There is no reason to be afraid of death – when we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. This, roughly, is how Epicurus put it a long time ago. I tend to think of it as like sharing a flat with a lodger you never see. The flat has two rooms, and two doors. Whenever you go through one door, the lodger goes out by the other.”
― The School of Night
― The School of Night
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