Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.
[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in that men fight for things and then lose the battle, only to win it again in a shape and form that they had not expected, and then be compelled again to defend it under another name. We are all of us very good at self-persuasion and I strive to be alert to its traps, but a version of what Hegel called 'the cunning of history' is a parallel commentary that I fight to keep alive in my mind.
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