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In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

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Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a pla...more

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What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

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Judgement is poverty.

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As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the s...more

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

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Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

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A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get...more

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Aeneas' mother is a star?""No; a goddess."I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. A...more

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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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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the ch...more

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This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and...more

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In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.