Christopher Paolini Quotes
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‘Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.’
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Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
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‘You of all people should know that everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood.’
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Shall we dance, friend of my heart?
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‘When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what is right.’
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‘I am not ready. But when will we ever be ready?’
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‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’
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No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.
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‘I cannot forgive, but I understand.’
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War was a catalog of madness.
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'Well, I suppose I won't see you for a while. So farewell, good luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat ear wax, and look on the bright side of life!'
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Better to die than to live in fear.
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‘I am not who I was, but I know who I am.’
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Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.
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My father's work will not go unfinished, even if it takes me to the grave. That is what I want you, as a rider, to understand. All of Ajihad's plans, all his strategies and goals, they are mine now. I will not fail him by being weak. The empire will be brought down, Galbatorix will with dethroned, and the rightful government will be raised.
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So tell me, is it true that men have ten toes, as is said?
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The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.
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When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.
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‘I don’t know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.’
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‘It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.’
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Applied properly, it logic can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
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It never struck me as interesting that I didn't go to school - we had our own little world. I always thought of kids who were going to regular school as if they're the others, the separate ones.
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‘Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?’
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'I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’