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John Christopher

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    And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

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    As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

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    I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

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    I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

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    Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

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    Some people are oil and water.

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    There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

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    There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

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    The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

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    We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

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    We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

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    What men do matters more than what they know.

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    You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

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    A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

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    And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

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    Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

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    Have a drink, and try to relax. All right, have another drink. There are times when getting drunk's not a bad idea.

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    He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.' And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?' In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.

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    He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.

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    His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

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    In the realm of dream and imagination all men are equal.

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    It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

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    It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.

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    More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.

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    The order should not have been given,' she said. 'It was not done for the city but for your private ends.' I shook my head. 'There is no difference.' You believe that?' A Prince must, or he is no Prince.

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    What I was suddenly aware of was the importance of their being whatever each of them was---cocky and contemptuous, or bothered and beaten---as long as it was something they'd come to in their own way: the importance of being human, in fact. The peace and harmony Uncle Ian and the others claimed to be handing out in fact was death, because without being yourself, an individual, you weren't really alive.

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    What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.