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Book: The Rule of Four
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  1. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    The two hardest things to contemplate in life {...} are failure and age, and those are one and the same.
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  2. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    So ended the formative period in {his} life, the single year that set in motion all the clockwork of his future identity. Thinking back on it, I wonder if it isn't the same for all of us. Adulthood is a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.
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  3. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
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  4. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    Time passed, worlds diverged.
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  5. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    ...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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  6. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    That was the recipe of our relationship, I think. We gave each other what we never expected to find.
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  7. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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  8. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.
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  9. Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason _ The Rule of Four

    ...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all."
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