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What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give lit...more

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Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

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When we know that it's a planet just like this one, only with a better climate and worse people--when we know they're all propertarians, and fight war...more

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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

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He began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who...more

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War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world...more

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Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, c...more

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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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To the Bullock RoserootWhat's the thought you thinkall your life long?It must be a great one,a solemn one, to make you gazethrough the world at it,all...more

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

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It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

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There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; th...more

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We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is ...more

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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And...more

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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be...more