Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon (1982)

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Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

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

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Lancelet said, 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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The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

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And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

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But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.

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If you would have the message of the gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats... It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

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There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

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

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It was a long season of mourning and there were times when I wondered if I should mourn all my life and never again be free of it; but at last I could remember without weeping, and recall the days of love without unending sorrow welling up like tears from the very depths of my being. There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever; even in dreams, I never saw again his face, and though I longed for it, I came at last to see that it was just as well, lest I live all the rest of my life in dreams…but at last there came a day when I could look back and know that the time for mourning was ended.

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Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.

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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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To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, Viviane said. Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

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My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know. She thought she had never loved him so much as at this moment, when she heard the convent door close, hard and final, and felt the wall shutting her in.

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There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

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

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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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The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

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I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

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