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“You value appearance more than truth?’
‘Appearance is truth. If I hoard billions of credits but dress like a beggar I will be treated as such. Likewise, I may be drowning in debt, but if I carry myself as a success then that is how I shall be treated. You obsess over your view of the world, of forcing others to accept it. But you don’t realise the world is shaped by perception. If you know the truth, but all others think otherwise, then you are the liar.”
― Fire Made Flesh
‘Appearance is truth. If I hoard billions of credits but dress like a beggar I will be treated as such. Likewise, I may be drowning in debt, but if I carry myself as a success then that is how I shall be treated. You obsess over your view of the world, of forcing others to accept it. But you don’t realise the world is shaped by perception. If you know the truth, but all others think otherwise, then you are the liar.”
― Fire Made Flesh
“Those trapped at the bottom rarely pray for an end to the system. They just dream of being the one cracking the whip.”
― Fire Made Flesh
― Fire Made Flesh
“She died because we are satisfied with mediocrity and consider needless deaths and suffering as necessities for our way of life,’ Sol replied coldly. ‘Do we mourn that our ineptitude claims a soul? No, we attribute the loss to actions of forces beyond our ken. We venerate the miraculous survival of a child instead of asking why our society is built on pointless deaths.”
― Fire Made Flesh
― Fire Made Flesh
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