If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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About Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

But pain… seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

—Lois McMaster Bujold

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Any community's arm of force—military, police, security—needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

—Ryszard Kapuściński

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

—Gautama Buddha

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And this is the simple truth—that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Salvation is for the feeble, that’s what I think. I don’t want salvation. I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

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