A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

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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.

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

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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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Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

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Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

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

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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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Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

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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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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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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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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

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To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.

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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.

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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

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