To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
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As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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.
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
They can send death at once, but life is slower...
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.
There is no kingdom like the forests.
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.