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If, as some believe, time is without end, then in time all things are made true. I believe there must be a final end, as there are endings for so many lesser things: empires, planets, men. But even the centuries of a man’s life are time
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“Evil occurs because we are insufficient to challenge it. Too weak to stop it at the gates, too blind to see it bubbling within. Were we all angels in our virtue and heroes in our capacity, we might hold all chaos at bay, might stop even the unkindling of the stars. Yet we are but men.”
― Ashes of Man
― Ashes of Man
“But to know a thing and to see it, to experience it, are as different as the moon and the finger pointing to it. Knowledge is not truth, only the apprehension of it. Experience is something else entirely.”
― Ashes of Man
― Ashes of Man
“I was a tool, a faithful knight, a pawn moved by other hands, with no will of my own. And pawns move only forward.”
― Demon in White
― Demon in White
“Do you know the difference, Hadrian, between magic and prayer?” Now it was my turn to be confused. “What?” I turned to look round at my old tutor. “Humility,” Gibson said, tapping his cane on the tile. “The suppliant prays to superior powers, while the magician commands inferior ones.”
― Demon in White
― Demon in White
“You have heard stories of men driven mad in quiet rooms by the rushing of their own blood. It is not true. It is not the sound that does it, it is themselves. In silence, they are confronted with their own natures—and with nature itself—and cannot look it in the face. As darkness brings forth the creatures of the night, so silence brings forth the things within our hearts . . . if we will but listen to it.”
― Demon in White
― Demon in White
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