Desperation When Quotes by R. Scott Bakker

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• Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save…
• What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and…
• To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to…
• To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.…
• Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered…
• Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
• The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
• You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.…
• Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder,…
• Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them,…
• Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as…
• He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

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