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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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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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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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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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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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Judgement is poverty.

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Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust, he thought, pacing his room as the soundless, vague lightning flashed overhead. In a good season on...more