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The Chronicles of the Aeonian

Words

Lines that remain. Gathered from the Chronicles — to pause over, and to pass on.

Timeless

  • „What acts against the All-One is not punished; it fails. Not by punishment, but by nature.“
  • „From every undoing grows new form.“
  • „Self-knowledge is the only currency.“
  • „What must be learned will be learned.“
  • „Finitude is the swiftest vehicle to truth.“
  • „It ends not in decay, but in fulfilment.“
  • „I am not against something; I would rather stand for something.“
  • „What remains, when you lose what you love and cannot go yourself?“
  • „What you seek is seeking you.“

    Inscription on the crossroads stone

  • „The problem is not evil. The problem is ceasing.“
  • „It is not holding on that preserves, but passing on.“

From Book I — The Awakening

  • „To learn again to fall into a morning.“
  • „You do not meet by going to meet. You meet by waiting.“
  • „Whoever arrives nowhere can stay somewhere.“
  • „Time has no length. Time has a density.“
  • „We live only through our wounds.“
  • „Sit across from someone, and there are two sides. Sit beside someone, and there is only one.“
  • „You will go. I cannot stop it. But I can be here until it happens.“
  • „This armour is not your protection. It is your prison.“
  • „Yes as a plain statement. Yes as water.“
  • „Custom is slow. Custom is sure. Fear is quick and brittle.“
  • „She made dying an act done in twos.“
  • „Without the wound, no presence.“
  • „That is not strength. That is sealing.“
  • „Hold it the way you would hold an answer you have not yet spoken.“
  • „Most of it one forgets. But the gaps remain.“
  • „She has not vanished. She has gone back.“

From Book II — The Long Night

  • „Fear falsifies the measure.“
  • „I was not complicit merely by looking away. I was complicit by wanting.“
  • „It has begun.“