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A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

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Firehurler (Twinborn Trilogy, #1)

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“Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

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“I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

tags: jalan-kendeth, religion

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“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be, better than anyone else. Of course, it’s an ideal we don’t all achieve. But in this modern world the great thing is to have an ideal. Achieving it is considerably less important.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

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“Give him what he wants,” Jorg had said. “Then take what you want. Nobody is more vulnerable than in their moment of victory, and you know that whatever you do this man will never let you go while he lives.” I”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

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“Justice, as it turned out, was a lot harder than war. War was largely a series of technical questions, a matter of taking living human bodies and making them dead. There were infinite variations in the tactics and the strategy, of course, nuances in weaponry and technique, but the basic premise was bedrock: you’d done it right if you were alive at the end of the day, and the other poor fool was not.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

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