R. Scott Bakker

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"The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation."

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

"To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife."

"If it is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything."

"The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds."

"Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools."

"I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victi…"