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Chan’s heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it.

— Lin Carter Tower at the Edge of Time (1968)

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Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.

Kesrick (1982)

The past has lost, as it always loses; the future has won, as it always wins.

Time War (1974)

Lux forced grief from his mind, thinking grimly of revenge.

Time War (1974)

Love, it seems, has its own arguments which are so potent that cool Reason can seldom, if ever, prevail.

“If one doesn’t learn from one’s unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, “what’s the point of all that suffering?”

The Wizard of Zao (1978)

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