# Quote — Matthew Stover, Blade of Tyshalle

> Anyone who is of a thoughtful, philisophical cast of mind will occasionaly be struck by the appearance of certain organizing principles of history. The forms these principles seem to take inevitably depends upon one's specific obsession. For a mornachist, history is a struggle of classes of economic civil war. An agriculturalist sees the dynamic of populations, land, and availability of food; a philosopher might speak of the will to power or the will to sythesis; a theologian of the will of God.

- Author: [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md)
- Book: [Blade of Tyshalle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle.md)
- Page: 100
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/anyone-who-is

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> I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

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> Only human, after all.

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> He had no idea what he should do now. Without destiny to guide him, he was lost in a vast, whistling darkness. Any direction he might choose was purely abitary; it would make no more sense, offer no more hope, than would sitting still. Which offered neither sense nor hope at all.

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