David Clement-Davies Quotes

#1. Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

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#2. Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

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#3. Man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

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#4. Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

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#5. The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

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#6. Stones are raw, they blunt my paw,
but words will never hurt me.

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#7. Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know ... Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

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#8. I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

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#9. Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

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#10. Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

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#11. That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

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#12. It's bad for you to hold in your feelings too much. You've a right to them.

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#13. In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

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#14. And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

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#15. It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

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#16. At times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

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#17. Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

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#18. Know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection.

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#19. Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.

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#20. To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

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#21. Why that was the stars, my little ones,' growled Kar, lifting his proud eyes to the endless heavens. 'For in the beginning, there was light.

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#22. Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.

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#23. They say that wisdom is a woman, and loves a warrior.

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#24. Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

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#25. On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

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#26. Men have always hated the wolf."
"Why?" said the boy indignantly, suddenly looking very unhappy indeed.
"Maybe because they see something in the wolf that they hate and fear in themselves. Maybe because wolves take their sheep and goats, as if we shouldn't all share life's bounty.

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#27. The secret is that nothing knows, the secret is that all life flows, the secret is that thoughts and hearts are different beings, split apart.

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#28. Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

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#29. I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

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#30. But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

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#31. Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.

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#32. Know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that.

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#33. You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

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#34. Wolves hate farewells,...

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#35. But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story ...

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#36. I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

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