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

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To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.

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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

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For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.

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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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