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Book: The Judging Eye
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
It was ever the same: Convince a man to take a single step--after all, what earthly difference could one step make?--and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things-all things!-but only so long as it remains invisible.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
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 friend you love.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
To resent is to brood in inaction, to pass through life acting in a manner indistinguishable from those who bear no grudges. But hatred hails from a wilder, far more violent tribe. Even when you cannot strike out, you strike nonetheless. Inward, if not outward, as if such things have direction. To hate, especially without recourse to vengeance, is to besiege yourself, to starve yourself to the point of eating your own, then to lay wreaths of blame at the feet of the accused."
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
The air became dry and still, like the gap in a dead man's mouth.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
he knew that one never stood still, even while waiting. That sometimes the sheathed knife could cut the most throats of all."
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
Despite all the pain, all the wrenching loss, there is no greater glory than a complicated life.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
Convince a man to take a single step-after all, what earthly difference could one step make?-and he would walk the next mile to prove himself right.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?" Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and curses." But the spit and the curses, Sorweel would learn, always came first, accompanied by bold gestures and grand demonstrations. War was an extension of argument, and swords were simply words honed to a blood-letting edge. Only the Sranc began with blood. For Men, it was always the conclusion.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other truths, overlooking their own outrageous presumption. "It says what it says," spoken with a conviction that was itself insincerity. They ridiculed questions, for fear it would make their ignorance plain. Then they dared call themselves "open.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.
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R. Scott Bakker _ The Judging Eye
When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool.When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its seasons.
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