Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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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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There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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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; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
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Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.
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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
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There is no kingdom like the forests.
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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
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What is more arrogant than honesty?
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They can send death at once, but life is slower...
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Original 1968 dust jacket artwork for Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea featuring the hero of the story, a young boy of "red-brown" skin.
The cover of a newly purchased "A Wizard of Earthsea", printed in 2012, featuring a hawk.
I treated myself to lunch at my favorite local pizzeria on Good Friday. With all the noise about the new Harry Potter series, I reached back to 1968 for a better-written story: Ursula K. Le Guin's classic A Wizard of Earthsea. I devoured the book in one afternoon.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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The light is the left hand of darkness
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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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; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.
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I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.
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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.
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