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A Game of Thrones · 1996
What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms… or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Aemon gives moral conflict the weight of an actual attachment. A rule is hardest to keep when breaking it would feel like caring for someone specific.
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In context
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At Castle Black in A Game of Thrones, Maester Aemon speaks to Jon about the demands love can make on duty. His questions come from personal experience, though Jon does not initially understand the full history behind them. The card takes a short passage from that longer conversation. The ellipsis marks omitted words within Aemon’s questions.
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- Maester Aemon to Jon Snow at Castle Black — reference 1Maester Aemon to Jon Snow at Castle Black; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Maester Aemon to Jon Snow at Castle Black — reference 2Maester Aemon to Jon Snow at Castle Black; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Maester Aemon to Jon Snow at Castle Black — reference 3Maester Aemon to Jon Snow at Castle Black; selected line and sceneReference checked
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