The Chronicles of the Aeonian
Words
Lines that remain. Gathered from the Chronicles — to pause over, and to pass on.
Timeless
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„What acts against the All-One is not punished; it fails. Not by punishment, but by nature.“
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„From every undoing grows new form.“
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„Self-knowledge is the only currency.“
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„What must be learned will be learned.“
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„Finitude is the swiftest vehicle to truth.“
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„It ends not in decay, but in fulfilment.“
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„I am not against something; I would rather stand for something.“
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„What remains, when you lose what you love and cannot go yourself?“
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„What you seek is seeking you.“
Inscription on the crossroads stone
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„The problem is not evil. The problem is ceasing.“
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„It is not holding on that preserves, but passing on.“
From Book I — The Awakening
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„To learn again to fall into a morning.“
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„You do not meet by going to meet. You meet by waiting.“
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„Whoever arrives nowhere can stay somewhere.“
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„Time has no length. Time has a density.“
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„We live only through our wounds.“
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„Sit across from someone, and there are two sides. Sit beside someone, and there is only one.“
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„You will go. I cannot stop it. But I can be here until it happens.“
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„This armour is not your protection. It is your prison.“
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„Yes as a plain statement. Yes as water.“
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„Custom is slow. Custom is sure. Fear is quick and brittle.“
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„She made dying an act done in twos.“
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„Without the wound, no presence.“
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„That is not strength. That is sealing.“
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„Hold it the way you would hold an answer you have not yet spoken.“
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„Most of it one forgets. But the gaps remain.“
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„She has not vanished. She has gone back.“
From Book II — The Long Night
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„Fear falsifies the measure.“
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„I was not complicit merely by looking away. I was complicit by wanting.“
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„It has begun.“