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  1. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    She led a submerged life, a life catacombed by poverty and ignorance"
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  2. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    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
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  3. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    Where power was perceived, power was given.
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  4. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    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.
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    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.
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  6. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    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,
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  7. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    Have you heard the saying, Skeaös? '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, Skeaös." What
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  8. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    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 . . ."
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  9. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook.
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  10. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    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
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  11. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    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.
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  12. R. Scott Bakker _ The Darkness that Comes Before

    Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.
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