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If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
Love and War: Great duality. When you find out exactly who the narrator is for this chapter at the end of the story, this quote is so much more poignant!
“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”
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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
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“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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Lauran’s 2025 Year in Books
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