Derek LaPlaca
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“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”
― Memories of Ice
― Memories of Ice
“The heart of wisdom is tolerance.”
― Memories of Ice
― Memories of Ice
“Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
“No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.”
― Toll the Hounds
― Toll the Hounds
“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
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