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"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."
"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"
"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."
"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."
"Self consciousness is the ultimate wisdom of life."
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"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."
"Never having been troubled by a conscience before, I was far from sure what to expect of one, and so when for a minute or two each day at dawn a voice began to whisper to me to be a better man, I decided the shock of recent events had finally woken mine. My conscience had a name- Baraqel. I didn't like him much."
"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."
"Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing."
"We all practice self-deception to a degree; no man can handle complete honesty without being cut at each turn. There's not enough room in a man's head for sanity alongside each grief, each worry, each terror that he owns. I'm well used to burying such things in a dark cellar and moving on."
"For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide."
"I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh."
"I'm a liar and a cheat and a coward, but I will never, ever, let a friend down. Unless of course not letting them down requires honesty, fair play, or bravery."
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