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The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possibl...more

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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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In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all tha...more

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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of ...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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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

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To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

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

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But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for...more

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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