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Book: The Thousandfold Thought
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
The eyes of men were but pinholes...All their books, even their scriptures, were nothing more than pinholes. And yet, because they couldn't see what was unseen, they assumed they saw everything, they confused pinpricks with the sky.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
Where hopes burn bright," he said, "patience is quickly consumed.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights and experiences. The sheer otherness of Gilcûnya serves to insulate the semantics of sorcery from the inconstancies of our lives.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute?
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
A cut scarred where a caress faded away.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
Nau-Cayûti's eyes gleamed like bared teeth in the gloom.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic.No more than sleep.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
Sometimes he would stare at the bare trees for so long, they would lose their radial dimensions and seem something flat, like blood smeared into the wrinkles about an old woman's eyes.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Thousandfold Thought
While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by the other immensities that framed his present circumstance. Even if there were no Consult, no threat of the Second Apocalypse, he realized, nothing would be the same. Kellhus would change the world, not in the way of an Ajencis or a Triamis, but in the way of an Inri Sejenus.This, Achamian realized, was Year One. A new age of Men.
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