"There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated."

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Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.276, The Overlook Press

R. Scott Bakker

#Differences Quotes

“I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own commercial judgment. If we cannot rely on the judgment of individual businessmen, taking their own risks, we have no future anyway.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 24, 1966.
“Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.”
“I think you have to embrace being a role model because you are in the public eye, and whether you like it or not, people are going to be affected by you positively or negatively, ... Public-wise, I really wouldnt do anything that would be detrimental to anybody else or to myself. And to a certain extent, I try to watch out and try not to do anything that would be bad for kids to see.”
“Jealousy is the grave of affection.”
“I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.”
“Whether you're a man or not comes from your heart, not how much hair you have on your head.”
“Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow”
“My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.”

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