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No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph, made out of words, the only material capable of capturing the recesses of the soul it exposes.
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“In what weird alternative universe would that girl NOT be Sorted into Ravenclaw? If Hermione Granger didn't go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“Greed is your god, Kaz."
He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
― Six of Crows
He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
― Six of Crows
“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? —AJENCIS, THE EPISTEMOLOGIES But”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.”
― Very Good, Jeeves!
― Very Good, Jeeves!
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