"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."

Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author

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"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives."

"What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households."

"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

"I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one."

"Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind."

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