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Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion
is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

Author has started using lots profanity and lewdness. Any amount of incest is gross. If it becomes more than these hints and winks I will not be able to keep reading.

“The thoughts of
all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul,
and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever
call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a
slave to the darkness that comes before?”

Children questioned as much to be rebuffed as to be answered, as they must in order to learn which questions were permissible and which were not. To truly ask why, however, was to move beyond all permission. To question everything. To ride the trackless Steppe.

“Their conversation was devoid of the intangible rivalries that hung like an odor, sometimes sweet, but mostly sour, about the exchanges of other men. Because of this, their talk, possessed the character of a voyage. At times, they laughed, and other times they felt silent, distilled by the gravity of their themes. And these moments were like way stations, small shrines by which to orient a greater pilgrimage.”