Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.
When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.
But you do understand. Think, Leweth. If we’re nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than...
We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.
We make a sad couple, she said, as though making a casual observation. Why would you say that? A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There’s something sad about that. He grasped her hand and kissed the tips o...
Everyone thinks they’ve won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked int...
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that woul...
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.
He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the Conriyan encampment and counted fires like an idiot child. „Always number y...
I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!,
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB When
Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games.
Look unto others and ponder the sin and folly you find there. For their sin is your sin, and their folly is your folly. Seek ye the true reflecting pool? Look to the stranger you despise, not the frie...
Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights and experiences. The sheer otherness of Gilcûnya serves to insulate...
Nothing makes fools of people quite like a luxurious life, Achamian said, shaking his head and nodding. Ajencis says they confuse decisions made atop pillows for those compelled by stones. When they h...
Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.
We Dûnyain, Cnaiür, are guides and trackers, students of the Logos, the Shortest Way. Of all the world, we alone have awakened from the dread slumber of custom. We alone. He drew Cnaiür’s young hand t...
Small wonder, Thomas thought, we humans were so jumpy, so arrogant, so defensive. Small wonder the Internet, which was supposed to blow the doors off narrow, parochial views of the world, had simply t...
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