Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Legacy
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You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. He'll be the glass, full of subtle colors and astigmatisms, through which all new things will be viewed. I too have a father who haunts me, and I know.