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• You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue.

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  Fists, Empires, Virtue

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• He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

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  Song, Blessed, Men

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• "Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
  "I want to be a soldier. A hero."
  "You'll grow out of it."

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  Hero, Boys, Decisions You Make

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.5, Random House

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• I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

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  Memories, Love You, Past

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• Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.

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  Names, Forgotten, Moments

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• I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

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  Mean, Fighting, Soldier

  Steven Erikson (2009). “The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6”, p.533, Random House

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• What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

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  Thinking, Soldier, Dangerous

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• And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Wind

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• Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

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  Desire, Justified, Virtue

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• Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.

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  War, Dark, Light

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• The art of illusion is grace itself.

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  Art, Grace, Illusion

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• None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

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  Confusion, Secret, Crumbling

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• I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.

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  Writing, Feels, Core

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• If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

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  Dream, Doe, World

  "The Crippled God: Book Ten of The Malazan Book of the Fallen". Book by Steven Erikson, February 15, 2011.

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• The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

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  Dark, Creating, Evil

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• We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

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  Humility, Soul, Mastery

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• Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?

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  Decision, Cost, World

  "Toll the Hounds". Book by Steven Erikson, 2008.

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• Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead

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  Fists, Want, Shakes

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.86, Random House

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• Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

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  Fashion, Soul, Soldier

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, December 6, 2001.

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• A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

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  Dream, Stories, Ease

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• The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

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  World, Harder, Honour

  "Memories of Ice". Book by Steven Erikson, December 6, 2001.

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• Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness.

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  Past, Sight, Darkness

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• You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

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  Citizens

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• I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

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  Compassion, Hatred, Soil

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• He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

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  Suicide, Men, Dragons

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