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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.Lois McMaster Bujold
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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories. .Lois McMaster Bujold
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.Lois McMaster Bujold
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.Lois McMaster Bujold
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.Lois McMaster Bujold
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Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.Lois McMaster Bujold
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You were kind.” Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?” Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hear .Lois McMaster Bujold
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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.Lois McMaster Bujold
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It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.Lois McMaster Bujold
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But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.Lois McMaster Bujold