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R. Scott Bakker quotes: Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A
R. Scott Bakker quotes: There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others. There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty. Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink. Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable. A strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history. That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish. He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance. If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic.No more than sleep. The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic.
No more than sleep.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men. The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other. Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Above all the mighty detest change. Above all the mighty detest change.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true. Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. - Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. -
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly only varieties of sorrow. Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly
only varieties of sorrow.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: A cut scarred where a caress faded away. A cut scarred where a caress faded away.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: 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. 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.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb. Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers? Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
R. Scott Bakker quotes: We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph. We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: A lifetime of cannibal hatred A lifetime of cannibal hatred
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Dreams drawn from the sheath. Dreams drawn from the sheath.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love. Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: 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. 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.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying. I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked! One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!
R. Scott Bakker quotes: 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. 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.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games. Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: All men are greater than dead men. All men are greater than dead men.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: And 'barbarity,' I fear, is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens. And 'barbarity,' I fear, is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Mystery made thing gigantic. Knowledge made small. Mystery made thing gigantic. Knowledge made small.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. - CONRIYAN PROVERB When Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. - CONRIYAN PROVERB When
R. Scott Bakker quotes: To piss across water is to piss across your reflection To piss across water is to piss across your reflection
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery. Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic. Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter. It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them. You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing. Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: 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? 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?
R. Scott Bakker quotes: He knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all. He knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. - SCYLVENDI To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. - SCYLVENDI
R. Scott Bakker quotes: For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty. For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world. Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance. Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Darkness shields as much as it threatens. Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? - What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? -
R. Scott Bakker quotes: The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds. The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human. Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions. It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions.
R. Scott Bakker quotes: Fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others. Fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

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