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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
She acted for reasons she knew not, spoke words she did not understand, pursuing ends that she could neither fathom nor bear. The
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
the hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. Heartbroken,
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew?
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves."
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Great Ordeal
more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness.
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Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. -
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