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fate is inexorable.
Excalibur: a novel of Arthur‎ - Página 448, de Bernard Cornwell - publicado por Penguin, 1998, ISBN 0140232877, 9780140232875 - 496 páginas
Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur‎, de Bernard Cornwell - Página 184, publicado por St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0312187149, 9780312187149 - 416 páginas

“E enquanto houver um reino nesta ilha varrida pelo vento, haverá guerra. Portanto não podemos nos encolher para longe da guerra. Não podemos nos esconder de sua crueldade, de seu sangue, do fedor, da malignidade ou do júbilo, porque a guerra virá para nós, desejemos ou não. Guerra é destino, e o destino é inexorável.”

Bernard Cornwell livro A Canção da Espada

Sword Song

“E fiquei olhando para aquela costa, sabendo que o destino iria me trazer de volta, e toquei o punho de Bafo de Serpente, porque a espada também tinha um destino e eu sabia que ela voltaria a este local. Este era um local para minha espada cantar.”

Bernard Cornwell livro A Canção da Espada

Sword Song

“Wyn eal gedreas. Isso é parte de outro poema que às vezes ouço ser cantado no meu castelo. É um poema triste, e portanto um poema verdadeiro. Wyrd bið ful ãræd, diz ele. O destino é inexorável. E wyn eal gedreas. Toda alegria morreu.”

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“Mas quando você tem ordem, você não precisa dos Deuses. Quando tudo está bem ordenado e disciplinado, nada é inesperado. Se você entende tudo, não resta espaço para a magia. Só quando está perdido, apavorado e no escuro é que você chama os Deuses, e eles gostam de ser chamados. Isso os torna poderosos, e é por isso que gostam de que vivamos no caos.”

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Enemy of God

De cães

“A parede de escudos.
Ela aterroriza. Não há lugar mais terrível que a parede de escudos. É o lugar onde morremos, onde conquistamos e ganhamos reputação. Toquei o martelo de Tor, rezei para Eduardo estar vindo e me preparei para lutar.
Na parede de escudos.”

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“Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa, uma apenas se transformava na outra pela ação, mas”

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O rei do inverno
Variante: Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa, uma apenas se transformava na outra pela ação.

De medo , Alegria

“Quando a gente está com problemas é útil descobrir alguém que esteve na mesma dificuldade.”

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Excalibur

Problema

“Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa.”

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The Winter King

De medo , Alegria

“É uma coisa estranha que notei com relação aos cristãos. Eles afirmam que nossos deuses não têm poder, no entanto temem às maldições feitas em nome desses deuses.”

Bernard Cornwell livro Terra em Chamas

The Burning Land

“Podemos fazer a paz, mas apenas se formos suficientemente fortes para fazer a guerra”

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De guerra , De paz , Forte

“Pelos ossos de Deus, Tom, o diabo fez um serviço ruim quando trepou com sua mãe.”

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The Archer's Tale

De deus

“O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando.”

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The Archer's Tale

De mundo , De deus

“A vida é uma brincadeira dos deuses e não existe justiça. Você precisa aprender a rir ou então vai simplesmente chorar até morrer.”

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The Winter King

De justiça , De vida , Vai

“No amé, pero anhelaba amar”
Nondum amabam, et amare amabam.

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The Archer's Tale

“Pedimos ajuda para garantir que a luz do Evangelho não seja extinta na Britânia – disse o outro padre –, para que os pagãos sejam totalmente derrotados e assim o amor de Cristo preencha esta terra.
– O que ele quer dizer – explicou Pyrlig – é que sabia que você estava na merda, por isso me procurou e pediu ajuda, e eu não tinha nada melhor a fazer.”

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De amor , Cristo

“Acho que o Santo Graal é um sonho que os homens têm, um sonho de que é possível tornar o mundo perfeito. Se ele existisse, todos nós teríamos sabido que o sonho não pode se transformar em realidade.”

Bernard Cornwell livro O Herege

Heretic

De mundo , De homens , De sonhos , Realidade

“Os guerreiros defendem o lar, defendem as crianças, defendem as mulheres, defendem a colheita e matam os inimigos que vêm roubar essas coisas. Sem guerreiros a terra seria um lugar devastado, desolado e repleto de lamentos. No entanto, a verdadeira recompensa de um guerreiro não é a prata e o ouro que ele pode ganhar nos braços, e sim a reputação, e é por isso que existem poetas.”

Bernard Cornwell livro A Canção da Espada

Sword Song

De crianças , De mulheres

“Mas o que é que você faria com o Graal?

— Eu iria usá-lo.

— Para quê?

— Para livrar o mundo do pecado.

— Seria um trabalho notável, mas nem Cristo conseguiu realizá-lo.

— Você pára de eliminar ervas daninhas entre os vinhedos só porque elas sempre voltam a nascer?”

Bernard Cornwell livro O Herege

Heretic

De mundo , Cristo

“Nós queremos a fidelidade nas pessoas que amamos, senhora, então não é óbvio que elas a queiram em nós? A fidelidade é um presente que oferecemos aos que amamos.”

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Excalibur

De pessoas , Fidelidade

“A raposa estava no galinheiro. Penas iam voar”

Bernard Cornwell livro A Fortaleza de Sharpe

The fox was in the henhouse. Feathers would fly.
Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Gawilghur, December 1803‎ - Página 273, de Bernard Cornwell - publicado por HarperCollins, ISBN 0061098639, 9780061098635, 2002, 320 páginas

“Quando um inimigo quer conversar significa que não quer lutar.”

Bernard Cornwell livro O Último Reino

The Last Kingdom

“Mostre-me um guerreiro humilde, e eu verei um cadáver”

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Crônicas Saxônicas Boxset 1-5

“Dizem que este Deus (deus cristão) é do perdão. Melhor ofender um desses do que qualquer outro.”

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The Winter King

De deus , Perdão

“Bem, graças a Deus eu não sei o que é perder uma batalha, mas certamente nada pode ser mais doloroso do que ganhar uma com a perda de tantos amigos.”

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Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Perda , De deus

“Às vezes acho que é preciso ser extremamente imbecil para ser um santo.”

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“É uma coisa ruim estar sempre combatendo”, disse ele a ela:

Enquanto estou no meio daquilo fico atarefado demais para sentir qualquer coisa; mas logo depois a sensação é deplorável. É praticamente impossível pensar em glória. A mente e os sentimentos ficam exauridos. Fico desconfortável até mesmo no momento da vitória, e sempre digo que, depois de uma batalha perdida, o maior sofrimento é uma batalha vencida. Não apenas você perde amigos queridos com os quais convivia como é obrigado a deixar os feridos para trás. É certo que se tenta fazer o melhor por eles, mas como isso é pouco! Nesses momentos, qualquer sentimento em seu íntimo fica amortecido. Só agora estou começando a retomar meu estado de ânimo natural, mas não desejo mais combate algum”

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Waterloo: Chroniques d'une bataille légendaire

Perda , Vitória , Sofrimento

“Eu ama Ceinwyn demais. Mesmo agora, anos depois, sorria ao pensar nela, e algumas vezes acordo de noite com lágrimas no rosto e sei que se devem a ela.”

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Lágrima , Noite

“Você nunca, nunca deve contar seus crimes aos outros, a não ser que sejam tão grandes a ponto de não poderem ficar escondidos, e nesse caso descreva-os como política ou ação de Estado.”

Bernard Cornwell livro A Canção da Espada

Sword Song

Bernard Cornwell: Frases em inglês

“Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

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“Defeat the enemy's infantry and the cavalry and gunners had nowhere to hide.”

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Sergeant Richard Sharpe, p. 233
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Triumph (1997)
Contexto: "Now we'll see how their infantry fight," Wellesley said savagely to Campbell, and Sharpe understood that this was the real testing point, for infantry was everything. The infantry was despised for it did not have the cavalry's glamour, nor the killing capacity of the gunners, but it was still the infantry that won battles. Defeat the enemy's infantry and the cavalry and gunners had nowhere to hide.

“The redcoats were doing what they did best, what they were paid a shilling a day less stoppages to do: they were killing.”

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Narrator, p. 317
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)
Contexto: They were the despised of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. They were drunks and thieves, the scourings of gutters and jails. They wore the red coat because no one else wanted them, or because they were so desperate that they had no choice. They were the scum of Britain, but they could fight. They had always fought, but in the army, they were told how to fight with discipline. They discovered sergeants and officers who valued them. They punished them too, of course, and swore at them, and cursed them, and whipped their backs bloody, and cursed them again, but valued them. They even loved them, and officers worth five thousand pounds a year were fighting alongside them now. The redcoats were doing what they did best, what they were paid a shilling a day less stoppages to do: they were killing.

“They had pride. And they had the precious ability to fire platoon volleys.”

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Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)
Contexto: They were thieves and murderers and fools and rapists and drunkards. Not one had joined for love of country, and certainly not for love of their King [... ] They were paid pitifully, fined for every item they lost, and the few pennies they managed to keep they usually gambled away. They were feckless rogues, as violent as hounds and as coarse as swine, but they had two things. They had pride. And they had the precious ability to fire platoon volleys. They could fire those half company volleys faster than any other army in the world. Stand in front of these recoats and the balls came thick as hail. It was death to be in their way and seven French battlions were now in death's forecourt and the South Essex was tearing them to ribbons.

Narrator, p. 101

“It was death to be in their way and seven French battlions were now in death's forecourt”

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Narrator, p. 101
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)
Contexto: They were thieves and murderers and fools and rapists and drunkards. Not one had joined for love of country, and certainly not for love of their King [... ] They were paid pitifully, fined for every item they lost, and the few pennies they managed to keep they usually gambled away. They were feckless rogues, as violent as hounds and as coarse as swine, but they had two things. They had pride. And they had the precious ability to fire platoon volleys. They could fire those half company volleys faster than any other army in the world. Stand in front of these recoats and the balls came thick as hail. It was death to be in their way and seven French battlions were now in death's forecourt and the South Essex was tearing them to ribbons.

“How can you expect obedience from the men when officers are corrupt?”

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General Arthur Wellesley, p. 175
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)
Contexto: My God, I will not abide plundering, especially by officers. How can you expect obedience from the men when officers are corrupt?

“And he was amazed, as he always was, by the courage of the French. They were being struck hard, yet they stayed.”

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Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 300
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Fury (2006)
Contexto: The real noise was of musketry, the pounding cough of volley fire, the relentless noise, and if he listened hard he could hear the balls striking on muskets and pounding into flesh. He could also hear the cries of the wounded and the screams of officers' horses put down by the balls. And he was amazed, as he always was, by the courage of the French. They were being struck hard, yet they stayed. They stayed behind a straggling heap of dead men, they edged aside to let the wounded crawl behind, they reloaded and fired, and all the time the volleys kept coming.

“Once a thief, always a thief, only now I steal from the enemy.”

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Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)
Contexto: Until two days ago,' she went on suddenly, 'I thought that my life depended on other people. On employers. Now I think it depends on me. You taught me that. But I still need money.'
'Money's easy,' said Sharpe dismissively.
'That is not the conventional wisdom,' Sarah said drily.
'Steal the stuff,' Sharpe said.
'You were really a thief?'
'Still am. Once a thief, always a thief, only now I steal from the enemy. And some day I'll have enough to stop me from doing it and then I'll have to stop others from thieving from me.'
'You have a simple view of life.'
'You're born, you survive, you die,' Sharpe said. 'What's hard about that?

“A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.”

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Major Richard Sharpe, p. 55
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
Contexto: He was a Major now, the ranks long in his past, yet he still carried the rifle. He had always carried a long-arm into battle; a musket when he was a private, a rifle now he was an officer. He saw no reason not to carry a gun. A soldier's job was to kill. A rifle killed.

“All feared the artillery, coughing its death in fan-like swathes.”

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Narrator, p. 63
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Sword (1983)
Contexto: Some feared the cavalry and in their minds they rehearsed the thunder of a thousand hooves, the dust rolling like a sea fog from the charge and shot through with the bright blades that could slice a man's life away or, worse, hook out his eyes and leave him in darkness for life. Others feared musket fire, the lottery of an unaimed bullet coming in the relentless volleys that would fire the dry grass with burning wads and roast the wounded where they fell. All feared the artillery, coughing its death in fan-like swathes. It was best not to think about that.

“To say anything was useless, to say nothing was cowardly.”

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Captain Richard Sharpe, in response to the suggestion of whipping sixty men, p. 151
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Eagle (1981)
Contexto: To say anything was useless, to say nothing was cowardly. "I think it a bad idea, Sir."

“We celebrate kings, we honor great men, we admire aristocrats, we applaud actors, we shower gold on portrait painters and we even, sometimes, reward soldiers, but we always despise merchants.”

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Colonel Hector McCandless, and Private Richard Sharpe, p. 300
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Tiger (1997)
Contexto: "That's what it's about, Sharpe, trade. That's why you're fighting here, trade." "It seems a funny thing to be fighting about, sir." "Does it? Not to me, Sharpe. Without trade there's no wealth, and without wealth there's no society worth having. Without trade, Private Sharpe, we'd be nothing but beasts in the mud. Trade is indeed worth fighting for, though the good Lord knows we don't appreciate trade much. We celebrate kings, we honor great men, we admire aristocrats, we applaud actors, we shower gold on portrait painters and we even, sometimes, reward soldiers, but we always despise merchants. But why? It is the merchant's wealth that drives the mills, Sharpe; it moves the looms, it it keeps the hammers falling, it fills the fleets, it makes the roads, it forges the iron, it grows the wheat, it bakes the bread, and it builds the churches and the cottages and the palaces. Without God and trade we would be nothing."