"What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."

Paradox, Belief, Absurd, Lie, Truth

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"What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."

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"Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains."

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"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."

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"Larine had a bright future ahead of her, but she had to learn to obey the rules before she could begin learning which could be broken and when."

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"I'd run. But maybe you can't run. Think of that, too.' His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. 'Sometimes you can't run."

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"Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm."

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"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer."

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"Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won."

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"I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be."

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"A secret spoken finds wings."

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