The Asutra

Quotes

1. “Bah,” muttered Sul. “I am unable to chop logic with you; you have the superior sleight with words.”

   p. 179

2. 

   “I made no such assertion,” Ifness said. “You drew a faulty inference, for which I cannot accept responsibility. In any event the situation is more complicated than you suppose, and you must be prepared for subtlety.”

   “Subtlety or deception?” demanded Etzwane. “The effect is much the same.”

   Ifness held up his hand. “I will explain the situation, if only to reduce the flow of your reproaches.”

   p. 25

3. 

   I am not the man for this sort of business; I detest puzzlement.

   p. 126

4. 

   Which is better: cheap submission or expensive independence?

   p. 195

5. 

   “Where are the Red Devil bones?”

   “Not far distant: beyond the ridge. Can you not sense the presence of so much death?”

   Ifness responded in a measured voice: “An intellect in full control of itself unfortunately must sacrifice that receptivity which distinguishes the primitive mentality. This is an evolutionary step I have, on the whole, been happy to make.”

   p. 55

6. 

   I know now what I should have known every moment of my life; that unless you help yourself, you die a slave. The fact is basic.

   p. 181

7. 

   Drowsing in the warmth, Etzwane could find no occasion for haste; indeed, the prospect of docking the boat and stepping ashore aroused in him a curious mood of melancholy. The adventure would then be definitely finished; for all its misery and black despair, he had lived to his utmost capacity; he had augmented and enriched his life.

   p. 194

8. 

   “I consider myself a fortunate men, more so than most. I have often wondered why it was given to me to live the life of Kyril Fabrache.”

   “These reflections, at one time or another, have occurred to all of us,” said Ifness, “but unless we are agreed upon a religion of gradated reincarnation, the question is ingenuous.”

   p. 74

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