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The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.

— Tad Williams Stone of Farewell (1990)

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She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.

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