Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
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The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
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Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
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Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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The light is the left hand of darkness
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We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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They can send death at once, but life is slower...
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It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.
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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 neither separated, nor mixed.
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Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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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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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
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Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
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Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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