I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is...the higher achievement.
Book 1994
Mirror Dance quotes
About the book
Miles's clone brother Mark poses as him to lead the Dendarii mercenaries on a raid to free clones being raised for body transplants on Jackson's Whole. The raid goes badly wrong, with grave consequences for both brothers.
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Half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damn rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.