Stephen R. Donaldson Quotes

Be true, unbeliever.

doubt belief faith truth

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad and saneCold and passionateLost and found

choice paradox character conflict

Part of him wanted to weep.. But his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

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But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.

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Futility is the defining characteristic of life. Pain is proof of existence

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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

man

Alas for the Earth! We are overthrown and have no friend to redeem us. Beauty shall pass utterly from the Land

beauty

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

worth