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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b91e558 | Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| db0ed8d | Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and the enslaved could know with certainty. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| fa2ee05 | One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. Heartbroken, | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 7bd0c43 | Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need -- to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result. | philosophy | R. Scott Bakker | |
| f1df4e2 | We make a sad couple," she said, as though making a casual observation. "Why would you say that?" "A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There's something sad about that." He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. "There's something sad about all couples," he said." | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 8405ddf | Zealous men often confuse purity with intolerance, particularly when they're young. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 1caee96 | For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem less immediate, more dreamlike, but the passions that accompanied them . . . They were unbearable at the best of times. With drink they became lunatic with misery. He | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c509431 | It ... It ... It is what it is! | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 7d83020 | the hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 580ac99 | And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0202249 | Small wonder, Thomas thought, we humans were so jumpy, so arrogant, so defensive. Small wonder the Internet, which was supposed to blow the doors off narrow, parochial views of the world, had simply turned into a supermarket of bigotries, a place where any hatred or hope could find bogus rationalization. For the human brain, it was like living in a schizophrenic world, a paradise of plenty where any second now, something really bad was goin.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| d41a23a | Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 6af2693 | All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b60d6d0 | There's faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there's faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they're not entirely certain they're in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God's mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence . . . | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| da67609 | Have you heard the saying, Skeaos? 'Cats look down upon Man, and dogs look up, but only pigs dare look Man straight in the eye.'" "Y-yes, God-of-Men." "Pretend that you are a pig, Skeaos." What" | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| baf22e6 | What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? -- | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| ad0db47 | Die Welt ist ein Kreis, der so viele Mittelpunkte wie Bewohner hat. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 65ecede | Antworten sind wie Opium. Je mehr man bekommt, desto mehr braucht man. Deshalb findet der Weise Trost im Geheimnis. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 3b214d3 | War is | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 329923b | Believe in what I am, because it's all I have today, and tomorrow who knows where we'll be. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 4b43cb4 | For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera, the present had receded to a point, had become the precarious fulcrum whereby history leveraged destiny. A mere formality. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| ac9f253 | Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. --EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring, | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 4024be7 | Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 8209298 | Dreams drawn from the sheath. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 0464238 | No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of words spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another soul to carry our own." He paused, cutting short his reply in order to bewilder the man. Insight struck with so much more force when it clarified confusion. "This is truly why you fled to Sobel, Leweth." | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 8e336f2 | No, Leweth. You fled to remember. You fled to conserve all the ways your wife had moved you, to shield the ache of her loss from the momentum of others. You fled to make a bulwark of your misery. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| d125a1a | Where power was perceived, power was given. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b750dc1 | to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 97bee9a | She acted for reasons she knew not, spoke words she did not understand, pursuing ends that she could neither fathom nor bear. The | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| ac132dd | It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| ee76170 | The more crowded the concerns of the present, the more difficult it became to see the ways in which the past portended the future. Had | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 34230c5 | Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of words spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another soul to carry our own. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 52bceb8 | She led a submerged life, a life catacombed by poverty and ignorance | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 5dfa9c0 | All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c28c8a1 | You know all my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 6d1b7b8 | knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did. | dwelling-on-the-past fate | Raymond E. Feist | |
| ee2e216 | to choose your partner so that you can continue working is a lot more constructive that giving one up. | life-quotes | Yayoi Ogawa | |
| 6dbcb31 | The surprise turned out to be songs: "Our Unforgettable Teacher" and the "Song of Suki," a regional folksong they had been vaguely aware of, whose lyrics they had searched out during their August vacation and written down neatly on a piece of paper as a parting gift." | Suki Kim | ||
| 076a88b | You will need to pay for the gas. Euros, Chinese renminbi, and U.S. dollars will be accepted, but the North Korean won is used only at Potonggang Department Store or at Tongil Market. | Suki Kim | ||
| 735374a | there. Of course, the DPRK purposely infantilized its citizens, making everyone helpless and powerless so that they depended on the state. | Suki Kim | ||
| 44506bb | Were you planning on staying forever? You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember? | Alkaline Trio | ||
| ea4e0ec | Same place, same hello, same goodbye. Helps you pick through beat up insides. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 07527f8 | I am often asked, "Which Korea do you come from? North or South?" It is a nonsensical question. The chance of me or any Korean out and about in the world being from the North is almost nil. Virtually no one gets out of North Korea." | Suki Kim | ||
| 78d9305 | Nothing, it seemed, could break through their belligerent isolation; moreover, this attitude left no room for any argument, since all roads led to just one conclusion. | Suki Kim |