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

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The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.

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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

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

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One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.

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The light is the left hand of darkness

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