To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

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To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

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You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

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A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

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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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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

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Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

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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. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

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You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

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We broke the world to make it whole...

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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 could unmake the world.

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You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!

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