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• From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

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  Christian, Son, Tolerance

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• I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

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  Men, Nurse, Looks

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.317, Ballantine Books

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• Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

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  Reality, Men, Saws

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.889, Ballantine Books

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• And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

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  Believe, Men, Differences

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.971, Ballantine Books

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• By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

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  Men, Thinking, Avalon

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

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  Reflection, World, Philosopher

  Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson (2008). “Priestess of Avalon”, p.148, Penguin

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• I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

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  Love, Regret, True Joy

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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• All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

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  Tears, World, Mark

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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• What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

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  Wise, Teaching, Ignorance

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

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  Mother, Avalon, Ancient

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• Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

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  Dust

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.530, Ballantine Books

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• If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

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  Dog, Deaf, Ifs

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “Heritage and Exile”, p.56, Penguin

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• For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

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  Wisdom, Higher

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• I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

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  Children

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• No man or woman can live another's fate

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  Fate, Men, Avalon

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

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  Lessons, Reviews

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• Never name the well from which you will not drink.

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  Names, Avalon, Drink

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• Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

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  Fear, Mind, Needs

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.39, Penguin

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• ... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

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  Believe, Fire, Stones

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (1998). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.1097, Penguin UK

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• If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

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  Machines, Turns, Ifs

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Forbidden Circle”, p.175, Penguin

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• A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

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  Lying, Doe, Avalon

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.660, Ballantine Books

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• Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

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  Kings, Hero, Legends

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.264, Ballantine Books

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• A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

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  Pain, Pleasure, Babe

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.273, Ballantine Books

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• Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

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  Song, Knowledge, Darkness

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.870, Ballantine Books

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• A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

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  Cousin, Hobbies, Degrees

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