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1 " The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness. "
― Anne Rice , Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles, #12)
2 " Who said you had to be human to have a soul? Everything that is self-conscious and capable of thought and love has a soul. The soul emanates from self-conscious. The soul is the expression of self-consciousness. The soul is generated by organized self-consciousness. "
3 " Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity to stand up for what is right. Your capacity to fight against what is wrong. Your capacity to choose even to die for what you believe is right. That's your soul. "
4 " If you really want peace in any world you have to learn to say nothing. "
5 " To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all? "
6 " But there is no value to suffering! "
7 " Evil is anything that goes against life, harms life, stifles life, destroys life. Evil is bringing harm to another person, inflicting unnecessary pain, suffering, or confusion. All evil comes from this. This is the root of all evil. "
8 " There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female. "
9 " After all, it is a lot of trouble to hate people, isn’t it? And a lot of trouble to be angry, and a lot of trouble to bother with such abstract notions as guilt or revenge. "
10 " Love is the only defense we ever have against the cold meaninglessness around us. "
11 " I knew I had been made to lead the party and that I was colder in temperament than the others, but I was not only deeply disturbed, I had lost respect for and trust in the Parents in some vital way. I did not entirely believe them when they said they would consider changing their plan. Their utter indifference to our personal fate was obvious. And not believing some of what they said, I came to question everything they said. I wanted really only one thing and that was to get away from them. "
12 " Maybe those who rose into the Light simply died, and the universe beyond this world was silent. "
13 " I've always been proud of you, except when you retreat, and give in to your suffering. I haven't been so proud when you do that. But you always come back. No matter how dreadful the defeat, you come back. "
14 " my motto, what it’s always been. I refuse to be bad at what I do, and that includes being bad. I won’t be bad at being bad. I "
15 " If we wanted to survive, if we wanted to inherit the millennia as Thorne and Cyril, and Teskhamen and Chrysanthe had inherited them, as Avicus and Zenobia had inherited them, as Marius and Pandora and Flavius had inherited them, and as Rhoshamandes and Sevraine had inherited them—and as Seth and Gregory, now the very oldest among us, had inherited them—then we had to meet the future with respect as well as courage and count fear and selfishness to be small things. "
16 " Something happens to your senses when you look on Louis. Behold Louis... "
17 " LOVE ALL, TRUST A FEW, DO WRONG TO NONE. "
18 " I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness. "
19 " There is only value,” said Derek, “to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself! "
20 " You will not feel anything. When you detonate the explosion, you will cease to be. That's all. There is no life beyond biological life. There is no life beyond visible life. "