What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

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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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In war everybody is a prisoner.

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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.

—The Creation of Éa

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

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

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One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.

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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

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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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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

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A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

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

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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

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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

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