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• We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.

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• When one believed, one’s soul moved. When one didn’t, everything else moved.

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• Mystery made thing gigantic. Knowledge made small.

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• Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.

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• That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.

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• The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

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• To piss across water is to piss across your reflection.

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• Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

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• There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

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• History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

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• Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

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• Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

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• Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

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• Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

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• Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

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• Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

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• Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

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R. Scott Bakker (17)

Birth:	2nd February, 1967
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author, Novelist

About

Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in literature and later an MA in theory and criticism. After nearly completing, but ultimately abandoning, a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University he moved to London, Ontario, where he now lives with his wife.

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