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Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion.

— Steven Erikson The Bonehunters (2006)

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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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