Poul Anderson - The Broken Sword (1954)

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For a space he faltered, when Goltan fell with a spear through him. Now I am one friend poorer, he said, and that is a wealth not gained back.

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Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.

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Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.

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'Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden's heart.

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I say that a God who would come between two who have been to each other what we have been, is not one I would heed.

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She rarely saw priest—and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God—and was not the earth His work, and a church only man's?—but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.

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I think you look on death as your friend, she murmured. That is a strange friend for a young man to have.
The only faithful friend in this world, he said. Death is always sure to be at your side.

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Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden's arms.

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You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?

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Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.

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