"Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin."

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“That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.”

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“Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.”

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