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(94) Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone Walkthrough Part 1 All quests Death March (all side quests + commentary) - YouTube

 

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"The world we must explore, virgin lands to discover, new knowledge garner to our brothers then to spread. 

For is there in life a beauty greater than to admire the new, to stand in awe of the never-ending creation of the world?"

 

20:39

 

"A life of plenty I would have lived at home, for the beauty and import of my art are respected. 

But such a life would be unfulfilled.

Great and diverse is the world, for apace continues its creation.  A riddle for which symbols speaks."

(99) Witcher 3 Blood and Wine Walkthrough Part 7 All quests Death March (all side quests + commentary) - YouTube

 

18:18

 

No man can be called good who does not share his prosperity with others.  Generosity is required for dignity in life and peace in death.

 

Valor does not make one good, but how many good men have you met in life who were cowards?  Those who possess valor do not hesitate to stand against the majority, no matter the consequences.

 

There are many traits which bear witness to man's true nature.  Compassion is what separates man from beasts.  Whoever feels sympathy for his fellow man will never turn a blind eye to misfortune.  He will instead always stand in defense of the wronged.

 

 Wisdom is a virtue which one should strive to cultivate throughout one's life, for it is impossible to be so wise as one cannot become even wiser.  The wise know this..  As we journey throughout life we should always seek to make wise choices.  Remember wise choices are not those who make our lives easier or simpler. Often they make it more complicated.  But they always make us better.

Geralt:" "All this, what did it bring you? Rest in Peace"

 

"Time eats away at memories. Distorts them.  Sometimes we only remember the good...sometimes only the bad."

 

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Dandelion: " Didn't stop me from risking my skin for you.  In my book, friendship is all that matters.  Friendship and Love.  And Art!..  And wine..."

 

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Regis: "Out of sight, Out of Mind".

 

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Guard: "There are different kinds of exits.  Some walk this path to freedom.  Others walk it straight to eternity.."

 

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Ciri: "I'm doing what I ever wanted to do, being whatever I wanted to be.   I believe that's one definition of happiness.."

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“History is a pattern of timeless moments.”
 
T.S. Eliot
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One of the best, and most true quotes in various East/West spiritual teachings is that when true peace is met, there is nothing to say.  The mind is silent.  

 

The opposite is true for a panicked and stressed state.  The mind is very noisy. 

"Many who have been tested, wished to have been spared it"

 

GRRM

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A woman sings with her ovaries ... you're only as good as your hormones

 

Carol Neblett

 

Menopause strikes .... et voila you are a philosopher ybItnYHW_o.gif

"My brother was a slave to his omens and portents. Anything to make his feckless reign seem to have purpose."

 

GRRM

“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered

"Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.

Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;

the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;

he lives as if he is never going to die,

and then dies having never really lived.”

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Cerys: Well? Know what it is?
Geralt: It's a hym. A post-Conjunction creature, very rare and very dangerous.
        It latches onto men who commit vile deeds. It feeds on their pain for
        years, fueling their guilty conscience. In the end, hyms force their
        victims to mutilate themselves.
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Dostoevsky (Brothers Karamazov) on Russian women:

 

"

And yet one would have thought the creature standing

before him most simple and ordinary, a good-natured, kind woman,

handsome certainly, but so like other handsome ordinary women! It is

true she was very, very good-looking with that Russian beauty so

passionately loved by many men. She was a rather tall woman, though

a little shorter than Katerina Ivanovna, who was exceptionally tall.

She had a full figure, with soft, as it were, noiseless, movements,

softened to a peculiar over-sweetness, like her voice. She moved,

not like Katerina Ivanovna, with a vigorous, bold step, but

noiselessly. Her feet made absolutely no sound on the floor. She

sank softly into a low chair, softly rustling her sumptuous black silk

dress, and delicately nestling her milk-white neck and broad shoulders

in a costly cashmere shawl. She was twenty-two years old, and her face

looked exactly that age. She was very white in the face, with a pale

pink tint on her cheeks. The modelling of her face might be said to be

too broad, and the lower jaw was set a trifle forward. Her upper lip

was thin, but the slightly prominent lower lip was at least twice as

full, and looked pouting. But her magnificent, abundant dark brown

hair, her sable-coloured eyebrows and charming greyblue eyes with

their long lashes would have made the most indifferent person, meeting

her casually in a crowd in the street, stop at the sight of her face

and remember it long after. What struck Alyosha most in that face

was its expression of childlike good nature. There was a childlike

look in her eyes, a look of childish delight. She came up to the

table, beaming with delight and seeming to expect something with

childish, impatient, and confiding curiosity. The light in her eyes

gladdened the soul- Alyosha felt that. There was something else in her

which he could not understand, or would not have been able to

define, and which yet perhaps unconsciously affected him. It was

that softness, that voluptuousness of her bodily movements, that

catlike noiselessness. Yet it was a vigorous, ample body. Under the

shawl could be seen full broad shoulders, a high, still quite

girlish bosom. Her figure suggested the lines of the Venus of Milo,

though already in somewhat exaggerated proportions. That could be

divined. Connoisseurs of Russian beauty could have foretold with

certainty that this fresh, still youthful beauty would lose its

harmony by the age of thirty, would "spread"; that the face would

become puffy, and that wrinkles would very soon appear upon her

forehead and round the eyes; the complexion would grow coarse and

red perhaps- in fact, that it was the beauty of the moment, the

fleeting beauty which is so often met with in Russian women."
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"If you think I'll simply betray to you what I learned through years of sacrifice and toil.. then you are mistaken.  Deeply".

 

Gremist's quote from the W3 has really stuck to me every time I hear it.

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