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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They can send death at once, but life is slower...

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

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The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

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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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You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

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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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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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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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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

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

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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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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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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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The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

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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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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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