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“I only mean that you can be too free. That’s chaos. You have to have a goal to aim at and to orient yourself to. Imore says the properly lived life is one which draws the best path between that goal—who you could become—and who you are today, but that this is accomplished by sacrificing certain freedoms. By making choices.”
― Howling Dark
― Howling Dark
“But there are women and women, commander. Some ask nothing of us, and so we are nothing to them. But there are those women who ask all of us. Those are the ones worth giving all for.”
― Ashes of Man
― Ashes of Man
“We believe our fear destroyed by new bravery. It is not. Fear is never destroyed. It is only made smaller by the courage we find after. It is always there.”
― Howling Dark
― Howling Dark
“Deep truths there may be, but none is deeper than this: Those lost to us do not return, nor the years turn back. Rather it is that we carry a piece of those lost to us within ourselves, or on our backs. Thus ghosts are real, and we never escape them.”
― Howling Dark
― Howling Dark
“You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves.”
― Disquiet Gods
― Disquiet Gods
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