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Belief defines reality.
“I don’t care if he likes me. He need merely be useful.”
If there is no truth, how can there be lies?
“Only boring people get bored,”
“I’m going to forge the fires twixt some lass’s nethers.
Wichtig loved to repeat things smarter, more educated people had said as if they were his own words.
“His doubt killed him before I did.”
The goings-on of a child’s mind were as mysterious as anything in the world.
Thus peasants are only peasants because they allow themselves to be peasants.
A sane man is simply a man afraid to unleash his inner demons.
Plans were for people too stupid to think on their feet.
It was so easy, he mused, to forget one’s age when not confronted by a mirror.
Think not of the cost but of the goal.
“I don’t have to be the Greatest, I just have to be the guy everyone thinks is the Greatest. Then I will be the Greatest.”
Communication is manipulation.
To be devoured by your one love was to achieve a harmony few would ever realize.
Your freedom will be brief before you are simply enslaved by another master;
“I worship no man because no man is more worthy of worship than I.”
Mirrors, he thought as he lay healing, are paths to the past and future. Glimpses at who we are. Reminders of who we were. Forewarnings of who we will become.
Failure may be a harsh teacher, but you tend not to forget its lessons.
Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second.
“Surely, if a god worships a man, that man will become a god.”
They say you don’t really know who you are until you’re tested.
Real speed comes from a state of relaxation.
Wichtig had fled his wife and child rather than chance failing at fatherhood.
The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached.
“People are defined by their primary delusion.
“I will burn the world for you.”
The power of love is the fear of dying alone.
Getting rid of a truth makes us wiser than getting hold of a delusion.
Modesty, false or otherwise, was not something he was accustomed to, but manipulation is contingent on knowing when to brag and when to be humble.
Few things angered Konig more than pointless apologies.
Calling something a coincidence just meant you didn’t have enough information to see the connections.
If communication was manipulation, emotion was the fulcrum on which the leverage was applied.
Kill him before he is polluted beyond redemption.”
His words made it true.
The man needed, and need was weakness.
I was sane once. It was horrible.
The stronger I am, the safer you are,”
tornado winds and hail. Most of the trees stood cracked and wounded, burned and blasted by
Why worry now about something happening later?
A slight exaggeration, but a far better story.
You can lead a horse to water, but drowning it is surprisingly difficult.
Once away from me, she’ll be susceptible to the influences of others.
Wichtig hid a flash of annoyance at the interruption. He hated having his flow disturbed.
Knowledge is power, and truth is a weapon.”
They soaked through his skin like poison.
but contemplating violence wasn’t the same as actually doing it.
the local fauna accepted his presence,
Those who live without a great fire in their soul live in darkness.
