Steven Erikson - Life Quotes

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A god intervened, Captain Paran. Returned the life to you. You might think it was on your behalf, but I'm afraid there wasn't any altruism involved. Are you following me?
I'm being used, Paran stated flatly.
She raised an eyebrow. That doesn't bother you?
Paran shrugged and turned away. It's nothing new, he muttered.

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Memories belong in the soil, in stone, in wind. They are the land's unseen meaning, such that touches the soul of all who would look — truly look — upon it. Touches, in faintest whisper, old, almost shapeless echoes — to which a mortal life adds its own.

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The mewling, petty acts, he'd say, of a short-lived and short-sighted species, Crokus, can do nothing to mar the Great Cycles of Life.

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'If by our sacrifice — yours and mine,' said Onos T'oolan, 'the pain of one life can be ended; if, by our deaths, this one can be guided home... we will judge this a worthy cause.'

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Heed the lesson there, son.
What lesson?
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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An item, he said softly, his eyes on the disc, that passes without provenance, pursued by many who thirst for its cold kiss, on which life and all that lay within life is often gambled. Alone, a beggar's crown. In great numbers, a king's folly. Weighted with ruin, yet blood washes from it beneath the lightest rain, and to the next no hint of its cost. It is as it is, says Kruppe, worthless but for those who insist otherwise.

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As with most unwitting servants of the gods, once the game was done so was the servant's life.

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Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable

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Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

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Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt for the privilege of being able to predict the shape of our lives.

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