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“The map? I will first make it.”
“I am compelled into this country.”
“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”
“His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.”
“In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.”
“At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.”
“But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.”
“Voss could always, if necessary, fail to understand. But wounds will wince, especially in the salt air. He was smiling and screwing up his eyes at the great theatre of light and water. Some pitied ...”
“He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afrai...”
