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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.
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Nobody had made this wilderness, and there was no evil in it and no good; it simply was.
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Before the gods and after, always, are the streams. Caves, stones, hills. Trees. The earth. The darkness of the earth.
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He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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It is light that defeats the dark.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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They can keep their God, they can keep their Light. I want the world back. I want questions, not the answer. I want my own life back, and my own death!
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.
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Obsessed with tricking the girl, he had fallen into the trap he laid for her. Bitterly he recognised that he was always believing his own lies, caught in nets he had elaborately woven.
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One voice, speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies, given time; plenty of time.
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Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.
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'Summon up a supper,' he said. 'Oh, I could. On golden plates, if you like. But that’s illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.'
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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He resolved not to speak again until he had controlled his temper.
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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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They had learned how to listen for the sense of the meeting, not the voice of the loudest. They had learned that they must judge each time whether obedience was necessary and right, or misplaced and wrong. They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit’s strength lies in holding fast to the truth.
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
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To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
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Why should he remember her? Why should she remember him? She had other things to think about. She was a grown woman. She had to face life. Even if all life had to show her was a locked door, and behind the locked door, no room.
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After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
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