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Book: The Unholy Consult
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  1. R. Scott Bakker _ The Unholy Consult

    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
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  2. R. Scott Bakker _ The Unholy Consult

    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.
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  3. R. Scott Bakker _ The Unholy Consult

    Everything we say to one another, we also say to souls absent. We continually speak to the speech that comes after our voice, forever prepare those who would listen. No truth spoken is true simply because words have consequences, because voices move souls and souls move voices, a great radiation. This is why we so readily admit to corpses what we dare not confess to the living. This why only the executioner can speak without care of consequence. Our speech finds freedom only when the speaker is at an end. This
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  4. R. Scott Bakker _ The Unholy Consult

    They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance,
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