Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.

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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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I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

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The machine conceals the machinations.

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As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do...

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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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To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.

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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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She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

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The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?

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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

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She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

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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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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

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I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

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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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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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