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"A part of me will forever lie within that broken ring of green stone, amid the blood and sacrifice before the ruin of that dreaming god of night. But a part, too, rests now and always on a sunlit cliff above the waters of Colchis, under a sunlit sky. There is pain always, and ugliness, but the light and beauty of the world shine always above and beyond the powers of darkness to destroy."
— Oct 18, 2026 09:03AM
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Deimilė
is on page 500 of 544
"Now hear this. The old words seemed to drift back to me on the wind, carried by the ocean airs from world to world. Here's a lesson no tor or primate of the college will ever teach you, if it even can be taught. The world's soft the way the ocean is. Ask any sailor what I mean. But even when it is at its most violent, Hadrian... focus on the beauty of it."
— Oct 18, 2026 09:01AM
Deimilė
is on page 488 of 544
"How could the Cielcin believe all creation a lie? Beauty is Truth, wrote Keats, and the world was beautiful."
— Oct 18, 2026 08:43AM
Deimilė
is on page 487 of 544
"But you should not despise him for what he is. We are all shaped by our suffering. That we are only what we are is ever our chiefest sin. Pity him his trials, and have mercy. On him, and yourself."
— Oct 18, 2026 08:40AM
Deimilė
is on page 250 of 544
"I loved my Empire not for what it was, but for what it should be, what it must be."
— Oct 17, 2026 07:27AM