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If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things.
Large things are made from small things. Significance is cumulative—but not always obvious.
Everything mates,” Doroga said. “Everything likes to. But only your people try to pretend they do neither.”
“Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way.”
“We’re stunning—and we need to be, if we’re to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It’s vain, it’s stupid, and it’s shallow, but that makes it no less true.”
Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them.”
“Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.”
“Time is fleeting.”
Madness takes its toll
but listen closely
not for very much longer
I've got to keep control.
I remember doing the Time Warp...
You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were.”
You have enemies enough without tearing open your own wounds over things you could not have prevented.
“Your kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen.”
“And you are unique among them.”
So he's The Doctor?
“Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.”
Yes. Yes it is.
“Saying something is not so does not cause it to be not so,” she said.
Her eyes made time into something unimportant, something that fit itself to their needs and not the other way around. The moment lasted until it was finished, and only then was time allowed to resume its course.
