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That our defense will fail is no reason to avoid the battle. For it is the motive that is pure, not the outcome.
To have may be taken from you; to have had, never. Far better to have tasted love before dying than to die alone.”
“A man needs many things in his life to make it bearable. A good woman. Sons and daughters. Comradeship. Warmth. Food and shelter. But above all these things he needs to be able to know that he is a man. “And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop—and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. “That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the scheme of things: peasant, serf, or
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Each man had a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there was a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate could find. A man’s strength was ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness,
Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze. What counts is tomorrow
“All beauty is sad,” replied the albino. “For it fades.”
“All things that live must die,” said Vintar. “Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death.
