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Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

— Steven Erikson Toll the Hounds (2008)

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The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

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Paran shook his head, his only surprise the realization that nothing surprised him anymore.

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“The dead never interrupt,” said the mason, “they but arrive.”

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He who would dominate must learn early that those resisting his command should be destroyed.

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“The mewling, petty acts,” he’d say, “of a short-lived and short-sighted species, Crokus, can do nothing to mar the Great Cycles of Life.”

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