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Man, he suspected, had a particular genius for complicating things, for creating social hurdles that one must leap or be thought lacking.

— Sean Russell Sea Without a Shore (1996)

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“They say wine will kill you slowly.” He nodded his head solemnly. “But that’s all right, we’re in no hurry.”

World Without End (1995)

The only thing of which we can be sure—time passes—everything else is vanity.

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To wait for life is the pathway to death.

Sea Without a Shore (1996)

No man of the first rank is ever satisfied with his accomplishments, no matter what others make of them.

World Without End (1995)

If a man’s deeds do not outlive him, of what value is a mark in stone?

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