He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

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Mots clés truth infinity insight value-of-life

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So what’s the test?"
"Ah, that’s the trick of it. It’s not a test. It’s real life.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés reality real-life test tests this-is-not-a-test

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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

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If there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés winning games game meaningless

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And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés prayer

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God save me from another such victory.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés victory defeat pyrrhic-victories

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But when he’s cut, I bleed.

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Mots clés pain love empathy

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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés nostalgia the-past

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…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés death inevitable oaths in-the-end the-dead death-before-dishonor

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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mots clés nature victory triumph giving give triumphs nature-of-things earn-it

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