Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.
It … It … It is what it is!
Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath the bronze visage that loomed orange and scowl...
Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. —
Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolu...
For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem less immediate, more dreamlike, but the passions that accompanied...
One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. Heartbroken,
Fate was but one more world-born subterfuge, another lie men used to give meaning to their abject helplessness.
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of world spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the moveme...
Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies—words—and so sank or floated with equal ease.
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willin...
You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.
You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Out...
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
Masses of warring men animated the horizon, crashing into stubborn ranks, churning in melee. The air didn’t so much thunder as hiss with the sound of distant battle, like a sea heard through a conch s...
Despite all the pain, all the wrenching loss, there is no greater glory than a complicated life.
The hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat
Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it’ll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice.
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