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Michael Moorcock é um escritor britânico de ficção científica e fantasia que se manifesta como sendo políticamente vinculado à filosofia anarquista.

Criador do personagem Elric, de Jerry Cornelius e de uma infinidade de outros. Em suas histórias é comum o conceito de Multiverso e o mito do Campeão Eterno. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Dezembro 1939   •   Outros nomes مایکل مورکوک, Μάικλ Μούρκοκ
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“I would waste my rhetoric if I tried, for men are greedy and will not see the truth for the gleam of coin.”

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Michael Moorcock livro The Mad God's Amulet

Book 1, Chapter 5 “The Machine” (p. 160)
The Mad God's Amulet (1968)

““Could you punish a heretic?”
“Madam, I do not know what a heretic really is. The word is made much of, these days. It seems to describe anyone you wish dead.””

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Michael Moorcock livro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Fonte: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 27)

“Every court must have its fool, every great ideal must attract some who are motivated only by self-interest.”

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Michael Moorcock livro The Runestaff

Book 1, Chapter 7 “A Well-Known Traveler” (p. 413)
The Runestaff (1969)

“You are martyred, as woman is ever martyred, particularly if she seeks her own power.”

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Michael Moorcock livro The City in the Autumn Stars

Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 446)

“Often people fight hardest of all to preserve a delusion. And they will frequently persecute those who challenge that delusion.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 2, Chapter 4 (p. 559)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

“We’ll build a world where Order shall prevail. A few more deaths are inconsequential, surely, if they guarantee us eternal life and absolute fulfillment?”

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Michael Moorcock livro The City in the Autumn Stars

Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 376)

“You may be abandoned by Satan, Sir, and I abandoned by God, but that does not put us in the same cart, nor even upon the same road.”

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Michael Moorcock livro The City in the Autumn Stars

Fonte: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 406)

““We are still ruled, in some ways, by our Church. We are a people more cursed by religion and its manifestations and assumptions than any other. The Steel Tsar, with his messianic socialism, offers us religion again, perhaps. You English have never had quite the same need for God. We have known despair and conquest too often to ignore Him altogether.” He shrugged. “Old habits, Mr Bastable. Religion is the panacea for defeat. We have a great tendency to rationalize our despair in mystical and utopian terms.””

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Michael Moorcock livro The Steel Tsar

Book 2, Chapter 4 “The Black Ships” (p. 361)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Despair leads to many forms of thought,” said the magus, “and many kinds of action. Despair drives some to greater sanity, towards an analysis of the world as it is and what it might be. Others it drives to deep and dangerous insanity, towards an imposition of their own desires upon reality. I sympathize with your despair, Johannes Klosterheim, because it has no solace, in the end. Your despair is the worst there is to know. And yet men often look upon the likes of you and envy you, as you doubtless envy Duke Arioch, as Duke Arioch doubtless envies his master Lucifer, whom he would betray, and perhaps as Lucifer envied God. And what does God envy, I wonder? Perhaps he envies the simple mortal who is content with his lot and envies nobody.”

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Fonte: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 15 (p. 153)

“Scholarly men were suspect in my town. Women could not admit to scholarship at all. Men are afraid of two things in this world, it seems—women and knowledge. Both threaten their power, eh?”

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Michael Moorcock livro The War Hound and the World's Pain

Fonte: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 31)

“Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?”

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“The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.”
Fonte: The von Bek family, The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 377)

“I understand you now. But surely, if Lucifer is successful, we shall all be saved.”

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The Wildgrave’s smile was bitter. “What logic provides you with that hope, von Bek? If God is merciful, He provides us with little evidence.”
Fonte: The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 6 (p. 79)

“Only Law could create such perfection and, Elric thought, such perfection defeated progress. That the twin forces complemented one another was now plainer than ever before, and for either to gain complete ascendancy over the other meant entropy or stagnation for the cosmos. Even though Law might dominate the Earth, Chaos must be present, and vice versa.”

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Michael Moorcock

Book 4, Chapter 2 “Dark Revelations” (p. 582)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Regret is useless since it can achieve nothing.”

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Book 4, “Doomed Lord’s Passing,” Chapter 1 “When the Sun Stopped” (p. 577)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Are the gods mad or are they so subtle we cannot fathom the workings of their minds?”

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Fonte: Book 3, Chapter 4 “What the Sea God Said” (p. 554), The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Elric knew that in reality Chaos was the harbinger of stagnation, for though it changed constantly, it never progressed.”

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Book 3, “Sad Giant’s Shield,” Chapter 3 “A Watery Summoning” (p. 545)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“Why do we worship such a god when whim decides him so often?”

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Book 1, Chapter 4 “Of Living Swords and Dead Gods” (p. 463)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)

“I must admit, sir, that I have modified the verses a little, to allow for the new things I have learned, so I am an unreliable source of truth, sir, save in its most fundamental sense. Like a majority of poets, sir.”

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Book 3 “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived,” Chapter 1 “Of Weapons Possessed of Will” (p. 270)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“For this was the other thing that Elric knew; that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance.”

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Book 2, Chapter 5 “Detecting Certain Hints of the Higher Worlds” (p. 259)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“In my own world, sir, sad to say, human prejudice is matched only by human folly. Not a soul claims to be prejudiced, of course, as there are few who would describe themselves as fools…”

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Elric, chewing on a piece of barely palatable salt beef, remarked that this seemed a quality of a good deal of society, throughout the multiverse.
Book 2, Chapter 4 “Land at Last!” (p. 241)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“You desire power only for that most selfish of all ends, and therefore you know no boundaries in the seeking and the gaining of it.”

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Book 2, Chapter 2 “In Which Old Acquaintances Are Resumed and New Agreements Reached” (p. 226)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“Did you not tell me once that patronage of the artist was the only valuable vocation to which a prince might aspire?”

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Book 2 “Esbern Snare: The Northern Werewolf,” Chapter 1 “Consequences of Ill-Considered Dealings With the Supernatural” (p. 218)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“There are subjects forbidden by good manners, it seems. As in many societies, I suppose, where the very fundamentals of their existence are the subject of the deepest taboos. What is this terror of reality, I wonder, which plagues the human spirit?”

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Book 1, Chapter 4 “On Joining the Gypsies” (pp. 188-189)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“The man is a relic, gentlemen, from an age most of us have only read about. He would have us judged by our wealth and our martial glory rather than our goodwill and tranquility of spirit.”

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Book 1, Chapter 3 “Peculiar Geography of an Unknown Realm” (p. 167)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“Elric was recollecting what was best and noblest in his own people and in himself, and even as he celebrated this he mourned the self-obsessed creatures they had become, using their power merely to preserve their power and that, he supposed, was true decay…”

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Book 1, Chapter 1 “Of Love, Death, Battle & Exile” (pp. 144-145)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“I am for no master nor moral persuasion. I am for myself. What your yearning soul, madam, might mistake for loyalty to person or Purpose is merely a firm and, aye, principled determination to accept responsibility only for myself and my own actions.”

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Book 1 “Concerning the Fate of Empires,” Chapter 1 “Of Love, Death, Battle & Exile” (p. 137)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)

“I do not know. That is the only real truth, Shaarilla. I do not know.”

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Fonte: The Elric Cycle, The Weird of the White Wolf (1977), Chapter 1, “A Woman Who Would Risk Grief to Her Soul” (p. 452)

“Despairingly, sometimes, I seek the comfort of a benign god, Shaarilla. My mind goes out, lying awake at night, searching through black barrenness for something—anything—which will take me to it, warm me, protect me, tell me that there is order in the chaotic tumble of the universe; that it is consistent, this precision of the planets, not simply a brief, bright spark of sanity in an eternity of malevolent anarchy.”

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Elric sighed and his quiet tones were tinged with hopelessness. “Without some confirmation of the order of things, my only comfort is to accept the anarchy. This way, I can revel in chaos and know, without fear, that we are doomed from the start—that our brief existence is both meaningless and damned. I can accept, then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us. I have weighed the proof, Shaarilla, and must believe that anarchy prevails, in spite of all the laws which seemingly govern our actions, our sorcery, our logic. I see only chaos in the world. If the book we seek tells me otherwise, then I shall gladly believe it. Until then, I will put my trust only in my sword and myself.”
Fonte: The Elric Cycle, The Weird of the White Wolf (1977), Chapter 1, “A Woman Who Would Risk Grief to Her Soul” (p. 451)

“Men may trust men, Prince Elric, but perhaps we’ll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.”

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Book 3, Chapter 7 “The Irony of It” (p. 413)
The Elric Cycle, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)

“All this is doubtless pre-ordained. Our destinies have been linked from the first.”

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“Such philosophies can lead to unhealthy fatalism,” said Terndrik of Hasghan. “Best believe our fates are our own, even if the evidence denies it.”
Book 1, Chapter 3 “Some Reference to the Three Who Are One” (p. 307)
The Elric Cycle, The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (1976)