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“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― The Chosen
― The Chosen
“But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence.”
― My Name Is Asher Lev
― My Name Is Asher Lev
“Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.”
― My Name Is Asher Lev
― My Name Is Asher Lev
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