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There is, too, a sort of relief in admitting defeat. Struggling to drag a mountain from my path, acknowledging at last the mountain would remain, lying down beneath the mountain, thankful for the shade of it.

— Tanith Lee Quest for the White Witch (1978)

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If she had supposed the gods ever listened, she would have prayed.

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Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

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Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

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The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.

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There is one sound way a man can bind a woman to him, the same way she will bind him, and with the same rope.

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