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“Our world is in equilibrium. The annihilation, the killing, of any creatures that inhabit this world upsets that equilibrium. And a lack of equilibrium brings closer extinction; extinction and the end of the world as we know it.”
― Sword of Destiny
― Sword of Destiny
“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
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― Zoo City
― Zoo City
“Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.”
― Half a War
― Half a War
“This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.”
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
― The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories
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