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  1. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    But I knew that I would have to live forever with what I did on that night of dying, and that if I chose to be a coward, I would have to repeat such cowardice over and over again in order to justify that it had ever occurred.
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  2. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others.
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  3. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Though they are fine to see, horses frighten me because they are large and weak minded, which is a dangerous combination in horses, men, and gods.
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  4. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.
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  5. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Knowledge often spoils devotion.
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  6. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    It has puzzled me that men, who claim more and more authority over women, show such fear of those whom they call weak. Perhaps they are hoping that women will come to believe that they need to be protected and dominated, but I cannot imagine any woman being so foolish.
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  7. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.
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  8. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.
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  9. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Power does not willingly give up its place to truth.
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  10. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the world the alter on which plants and animals lay down their own lives for the sustenance of others, and on which we lay our youth, our well-being, our loved ones, and finally our lives. I am an ignorant woman who has sacrificed all of these things but the last, and cannot say for whom or what I perform this unrelenting ritual.
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  11. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    I learned regret in the ruins of Tarbfhlaith. I regretted that ambition had ruled my heart instead of affection for my kin. And with the lesson of regret came the gratitude for having life still to move my lips and limbs, and to speak kind words to and embrace those I may not see again on this sweet-smelling earth. I learned that I cannot wait to love what is in my presence, for it or I may well be gone tomorrow. To some, such as Giannon, this lesson poisons the heart with bitterness. But such bitterness has no value and is, in fact, cowardly. For bitterness risks nothing.
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  12. Kate Horsley _ Confessions of a Pagan Nun

    It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
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