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“When love grows cold, my falcon, eternal truths darken.”
Do you not think all those people you saw suffered pain in the making of those works of beauty whose loss you so lamented?”
“A human being can only become truly human if he lives for others. That way, the way of love, is by necessity the way of pain. Shared pain. Co-suffering.”
faith in a gentle god had led the Vasylli to neglect the good of others, then perhaps they imagined Adonais to be different than he really was. Perhaps Adonais was a jealous god.
“Men like you pollute the earth, Voran. You sit on rocks and ponder questions with no answers, while Vasyllia crumbles around you. What have you ever accomplished? Everything you touch is blighted, and now even Sabíana withers under your caresses.”
Beware the man who thinks himself righteous, for he is a liar or a madman. Seek out the man who knows himself sinful, for in him the light resides.
Don’t look for evil in the dark shadows. Don’t look for evil in the night. Look for it in the middle of the day. Beware the demon that wears the skin of those you love.
How can I explain it? If the power of the sea could be contained in a drop of water, if the limitless potential of words could be expressed in a single thought. An infinite multiplicity in a single entity. Is it I who even speak? I don’t recognize my own voice.”
realized the agony of being formless, the agony of infinite desire, infinite will without the power of fulfilling infinite desire, of bringing that will into action.
Light of sun, radiance of moon, Splendor of fire, speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, depth of sea, Strength of earth, firmness of rock.
