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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“The tales are only as dark as the teller.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion

“We do not argue that war is better than peace; we are not so stupid as that. But it is not peace when cruelty reigns, when stronger men steal from farmers and craftworkers, when the child can be enslaved or the old thrown out to starve, and no one lifts a hand. That is not peace: that is conquest, and evil.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion

“In our culture we tend to equate thinking and intellectual powers with success and achievement. In many ways, however, it is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job. Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Honor is a fool's prize. Glory is of no use to the dead.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

“Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

“When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

“Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

“One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Path of Destruction

“Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Code of the Sith”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Rule of Two

“Equality is a lie,” Bane told her. “A myth to appease the masses. Simply look around and you will see the lie for what it is! There are those with power, those with the strength and will to lead. And there are those meant to follow—those incapable of anything but servitude and a meager, worthless existence. “Equality is a perversion of the natural order!” he continued, his voice rising as he shared the fundamental truth that lay at the core of his beliefs. “It binds the strong to the weak. They become anchors that drag the exceptional down to mediocrity. Individuals destined and deserving of greatness have it denied them. They suffer for the sake of keeping them even with their inferiors.”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Rule of Two

“There must only be two, No more and no less”
― Drew Karpyshyn, Rule of Two

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

“I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“A sane man is simply a man afraid to unleash his inner demons.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“only dare tread the waters of insanity at night as they lie dreaming. Cowards. Dive deep into your psychopathy. Let loose the demons of delusion and know, in the end, when they finally devour you, you swam with sharks. —VERSKLAVEN SCHWACHE, GEFAHRGEIST PHILOSOPHER”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“No one loathed her more than she and thus none could truly harm her.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Always best to start with violence and attempt communication second. People reacted more favorably when they knew you would snuff a few lives to get what you wanted... or for no reason whatsoever.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“And the people love a well-mannered killer.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“The hand-plucked rose loses meaning as life is leached. Red love, once clutched to breast, putrefies and is thrown to the midden.
The hand leaked life as meaning was pucked. Putrefaction clutched love and was thrown to the midden.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“The power of faith is the fear of the unknown.
The power of love is the fear of dying alone.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption

“Getting rid of a truth makes us wiser than getting hold of a delusion”
― Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption