Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human. - R. Scott Bakker

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The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

R. Scott Bakker

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

Hunger, Love Is, Lust, Meaningful

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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

Arise, Call, Darkness, Men, Slave, Soul

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

Beauty, Difference, Differences, Illuminated, Thought

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Everyone, Harms, Kings, Lying, Mistake, Stupidity

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.

Belief, Billions, Disagree, Everyone, Magical, Thinking

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

Already, Ignorant, Men, Sting, Things, Two

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Swami Vivekananda

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments

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I obey my own commands about as often as others do.

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Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. Tongue, lose thy light. Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

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