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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you...more

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History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men han...more

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So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds a...more

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Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered bene...more

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Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side of them was seen, and though all men w...more

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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made ...more

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Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his h...more

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It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions whe...more

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We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure ...more