“Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns?”

— Tanith Lee , book Volkhavaar

Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 11 (p. 102)

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