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R. Scott Bakker Quotes: Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
         

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?


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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.





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