"He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one……" — R. Scott Bakker
"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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R. Scott Bakker
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33 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…
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What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the…
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To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told,…
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of…
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh…
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of…
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Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words…
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