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Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A
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There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.
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Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.
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Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
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A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
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That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.
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He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.
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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
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The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic.
No more than sleep. — R. Scott Bakker
No more than sleep. — R. Scott Bakker
The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.
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Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
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Above all the mighty detest change.
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Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.
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Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. -
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Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly
only varieties of sorrow. — R. Scott Bakker
only varieties of sorrow. — R. Scott Bakker
A cut scarred where a caress faded away.
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Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken.
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Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
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Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
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A lifetime of cannibal hatred
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Dreams drawn from the sheath.
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Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.
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No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.
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I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
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One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
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Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games.
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Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence.
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All men are greater than dead men.
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Mystery made thing gigantic. Knowledge made small.
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To piss across water is to piss across your reflection
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Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.
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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
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It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.
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You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.
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Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
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Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
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And that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?
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He knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all.
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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. - SCYLVENDI
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There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
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Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
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Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.
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One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.
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Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
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What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? -
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The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.
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Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
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