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The small red eyes regarded him, unblinking. “What would you give me for all the wisdom of the world?”
“Nothing.” He turned back to his work. “I have heard you know the answers to every riddle save one. That will be the one I need answering.”

— Patricia A. McKillip The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)

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Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.

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Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.

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Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.

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She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her?

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I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

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