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“Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.”
― Day Out of Days: Stories
― Day Out of Days: Stories
“If nothing was worth living for it followed, didn’t it, that there was nothing worth dying for either.”
― The Hellbound Heart
― The Hellbound Heart
“stewing about something in the past you can’t do anything about anyway.”
― Day Out of Days: Stories
― Day Out of Days: Stories
“When words fail you, you dissolve into an image of nothingness. You disappear.”
― Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967–2017
― Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays, Prefaces, and Other Writings, 1967–2017
“After a battle lasting many ages,
The Devil won,
And said to God
(who had been his Maker):
"Lord,
We are about to witness the unmaking of Creation
By my hand.
I would not wish you
to think me cruel,
So I beg you, take three things
From this world before I destroy it.
Three things, and then the rest will be
wiped away."
God thought for a little time.
And at last He said:
"No, there is nothing."
The Devil was surprised.
"Not even you, Lord?" he said.
And God said:
"No. Not even me.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
The Devil won,
And said to God
(who had been his Maker):
"Lord,
We are about to witness the unmaking of Creation
By my hand.
I would not wish you
to think me cruel,
So I beg you, take three things
From this world before I destroy it.
Three things, and then the rest will be
wiped away."
God thought for a little time.
And at last He said:
"No, there is nothing."
The Devil was surprised.
"Not even you, Lord?" he said.
And God said:
"No. Not even me.”
― Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War
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