Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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"Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world," the emissary said, "and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it."
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