We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all b...
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, said the witch, or die of despair.
We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will win that race--I will come first--and you wind up the future like clockwork. The world has no ch...
When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in ex...
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all...choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existenc...
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in exi...
Why do they do these things to children, Pan? Do they all hate children so much, that they want to tear them apart like this? Why do they do it?
Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.
Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.
You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.
Because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
Consciousness is a perfectly normal property of matter, like mass or anbaric charge; that there is a field of consciousness which pervades the entire universe, and which makes itself apparent most ful...
In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor...
The history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have alwa...
The pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.
There is an angel called Metatron.
They could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other’s way,
Was such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Ev...
Whatever humanness he had left felt the strangest of pleasures: that of offering eager obedience to a stronger power that was wholly right.
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