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How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be.

— Pierce Brown Morning Star (2016)

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Only humanity could grasp the stars and then let them slip through its fingers for the pettiness in its heart.

Dark Age (2019)

Government is never the solution, but it is almost always the problem.

Morning Star (2016)

If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.

Morning Star (2016)

"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power."

Golden Son (2015)

Permanence of fame, power, dominion of the individual, are illusions. All that will be measured, all that will last, is your mastery of yourself.

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