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“And ‘barbarity,’ I fear, is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens.”
― The Warrior Prophet
― The Warrior Prophet
“Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered—they are relived.”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
“Like life, games were governed by rules. But unlike life, games were utterly defined by those rules. The rules were the game, and if one played by different rules, then one simply played a different game. Since a fixed framework of rules determined the meaning of every move as a move, games possessed a clarity that made life seen like a drunken brawl by comparison. The proprieties were indubitable, the permutations secure; only the outcome was shrouded.”
― The Darkness That Comes Before
― The Darkness That Comes Before
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