The Least Envied
Sean DeLauder
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A name isn't important. It doesn't make you, you make it.”
“That was the nature of hope. Sustaining, but of little practical purpose besides.”
“History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.”
“Unless was a sword held carefully by the blade. A single slip and all the delicate designs could fall apart in a clatter of severed fingers.”
“That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful.”
“People clung to memories and legends, loving them because they went on forever, and people loved the eternal, hoping there might be something eternal in themselves.”
“Most people gladly blended into the unoffending beige of humanity.”
“Hope was always creating pleasantly ideological, and therefore impossible things.”
“Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair.”
“Doubt was a giant-sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in nothing more than destroying Hope. And Hope, being immortal, lived out its days with blithe indifference to its regular obliteration. Neither cared at all about the suffering they caused: Doubt because it enjoyed suffering; Hope because it was too stupid to recognize it.”
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Book Keywords:
doubt, hopelessness, beauty, evil, hope, history, unless, obliviousness, history-of-mankind
