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Baldur Quotes

Eight of the best book quotes from Baldur
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“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
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“Kinds of behavior that work in a specialized environment, such as a prison, can fail to work and in fact become harmful when used outside such an environment.”
03
″‘Believe,’ said the rumbling voice. ‘If you are to survive, you must believe.’ ‘Believe what?’ asked Shadow. ‘What should I believe?’ He stared at Shadow, the buffalo man, and he drew himself up huge, and his eyes filled with fire. He opened his spit-flecked buffalo mouth and it was red inside with the flames that burned inside him, under the earth. ‘Everything,’ roared the buffalo man.”
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“Every hour wounds. The last one kills”
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“Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn’t feel anything at all.”
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“Shadow was not superstitious. He did not believe in anything he could not see.”
07
“There was part of him that felt gently exhilarated: he had done something.”
08
“It’s true what they say, thought Shadow. If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.”
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