Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.


“Don’t you think a man better appreciates love when he has been forced for so long to go without?”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension

“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination. Forsaking
beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving
misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving
misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension

“On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
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