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If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] pow...more

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the ...more

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I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works...more

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Res...more

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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, ...more

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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of th...more

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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

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The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is ...more

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... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

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Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.

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No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them c...more

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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment,...more