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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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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

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

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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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This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus ha...more

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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something mu...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

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She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.