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'If by our sacrifice — yours and mine,' said Onos T'oolan, 'the pain of one life can be ended; if, by our deaths, this one can be guided home ... we will judge this a worthy cause.'

— Steven Erikson The Crippled God (2011)

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'It is enough that in the place he calls home, he is no stranger.'

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The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

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