Gillian Rubinstein - Across the Nightingale Floor (2002)

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Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

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It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

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The less people think of you, the more they will reveal to you or in your presence.

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But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

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Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

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I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

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How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

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