You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

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There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,

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The truth is that 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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You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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

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a quick ursula
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To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

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Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.

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

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

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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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A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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