𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 ‘𝐄𝐋𝐑𝐈𝐂 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐍𝐈𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐄’ 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐄𝐋 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐂𝐊.
“ man was not born to a world of justice. but he can create such a world! ”
“ they offer you so much power. so tempting to take advantage of it. ”
“ death is the promise we’re all born with. ”
“ we could not bring back the golden age. indeed we were now paying the price of having enjoyed one. ”
“ through our sense of identity, we act. we determine our moral judgements. ”
“ we create fresh narratives to use in our survival. it is part of what makes us such flawed creatures. creatures of such narrative fiction creating cause and effect. ”
“ we rewrite our own memories, of course, all the time. ”
“ to compromise with tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. the sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance. ”
“ we are friends to death, but not his servants. ”
“ the nearest we ever come to knowing truth is when we are witness to a paradox. ”
“ law and chaos? they’re not the same as good and evil, i’m told. ”
“ i am a petty god at the moment. you will find me more lordly and benign when i achieve the position of a greater god. ”
“ if we are the toys of the gods are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children? ”
“ it is fitting that we should be wanderers, for we have no place in this world. ”
“ by means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are within and who we are. without them we should undoubtedly go mad. ”
“ it’s history that’s caused all the troubles in the past. ”
“ a good death is better than a poor one. ”
“ everything may exist for a while — even justice. but the true state of the universe is anarchy. it is the mortal’s tragedy that he can never accept this. ”
“ i have hated hypocrisy and deception all my life, yet all my life i have been victim to it. that is the terrible irony. ”
“ time is the enemy of identity”
“ we’re wary of you. even if we allowed you to lead us again you would take your own doomed path and us with you. ”
“ memory is the foundation of identity. ”
“ i can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. ”
“ i have chosen. i chose chaos. ”
“ you spend your lives chasing that which is within you and that which you can find in any other human being. ”
“ meaning? do not seek that, for madness lies in such a course. ”
“ my mind goes out searching through black barrenness for something — anything. ”
“ i seek no excuses, for i know what i am and i know what i have done. ”
“ but people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions — conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions. ”
“ i have brought evil to many places. ”
“ if we remain adaptable, we remain strong. if we force others to accept our traditions and values, we ultimately grow weak…”
“ who told you that the world was just? ”
“ we live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress. ”
“ thing is, treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack. ”
“ there is no future here for myself and my men. ”
“ there are many legends which say the past was perfect or that the future will be perfect. i have seen many pasts and many futures. none of them were perfect, my friend. ”
“ that the world forgets me is all i ask,”
“ the subtlest lie of all is the full truth. ”
“ why should their pain produce such marvellous beauty? ”
“ the past is a script we are constantly rewriting. ”
“ is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage? ”
“ we free travellers need no chains of that sort. ”
“ people are not alarmed by the unusual — so long as it is placed in an acceptable context. ”
“ despairingly, sometimes, i seek the comfort of a benign god. ”
