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Dionis
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Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
“In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.”
― Dust of Dreams
― Dust of Dreams
“Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, cutting at our hearts and stealing more than our strength; stealing our will. For what are we without empathy? What manner of joy might we find in our lives if we cannot understand the joys and pains of those around us?”
― The Silent Blade
― The Silent Blade
“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
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“We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.
— Arm of the Sphinx”
― Arm of the Sphinx
— Arm of the Sphinx”
― Arm of the Sphinx
“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
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