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Though sceptics in their inmost hearts, they looked upon religion as an instrument of government.
Religion as politics
“Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“I feel like my heart is talking to you all the time.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“But life runs in every direction and then ends mid-sentence; sometimes there’s nothing better than waking up early in the morning just to gaze at the surface of the sea, and let time pass by.”
― Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night: A Novel
― Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night: A Novel
“I had perceived dimly, too, that the only physical proof of the existence of consciousness was suffering. Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.”
― Sun & Steel
― Sun & Steel
“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
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