Liber Solis - Chapter 6

Verses

Verse 17

The sun does not create your shadow. It only makes it difficult to deny.

Verse 18

I hated the liar until I noticed how carefully I edited my own stories.

Verse 19

What you bury alive does not stay buried. It learns your address.

Verse 20

At noon there is nowhere polite for darkness to stand, so it crawls beneath your feet.

Verse 21

I called him cruel because it was easier than remembering the pleasure I took in winning.

Verse 22

Every monster is suspiciously fluent in the language of the one who sees it.

Verse 23

The sun came through the window and showed me dust everywhere. Naturally, I blamed the window.

Verse 24

You can lock a thing out of your heart and still meet it every morning wearing somebody else's face.

Verse 25

The righteous man keeps a devil in the cellar and complains about the noises at night.

Verse 26

I accused the world of being filthy while hiding my own hands behind my back.

Verse 27

Shadows become very dramatic when nobody admits who is standing in front of the light.

Verse 28

Whatever you refuse to name will introduce itself using other people.

Verse 29

I spent years defeating enemies who had the strange habit of resembling me.

Verse 30

The sun has terrible manners. It enters every room eventually.

Verse 31

Beware the sin that disgusts you too quickly. Sometimes hatred is only recognition wearing perfume.

Verse 32

A man may exile half his soul and then spend his whole life complaining about foreigners.

Verse 33

I once prayed for my enemies to disappear. By evening I had become unbearably lonely.

Verse 34

The brightest day can produce the blackest outline. Light has never promised innocence.

Verse 35

You say the beast is outside the gate. I wonder who keeps feeding it.

Verse 36

The demon you refuse to own becomes remarkably talented at finding bodies to possess.

Verse 37

Some men need villains the way sundials need shadows. Without one, they have no idea where they stand.

Verse 38

I met a murderer in a dream and woke relieved that I was not him. He laughed for the rest of the morning.

Verse 39

What burns inside you will eventually make smoke somewhere in the world.

Verse 40

At sunset every shadow grows enormous. Do not mistake size for strength.

Verse 41

The easiest evil to condemn is the one that lets you remain innocent.

Verse 42

I asked the darkness why it followed me. It said, “You keep bringing the light.”

Verse 43

There are people who spend their whole lives hunting devils and never once turn around.

Verse 44

When the sun finally went down, my shadow disappeared. I celebrated for almost a minute before realizing where it had gone.