Ian Caldwell - The Rule of Four (2004)

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The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

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A good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask—but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

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Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

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The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

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Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

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We both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

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Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

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The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.

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Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

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Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.

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Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.

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