“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
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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.”
— Steven Erikson, book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 11 (p. 344)
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