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“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.” (A Wizard of Earthsea Quotes)
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man’s hand and the wisdom in a tree’s root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“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.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
“The wise needn’t ask, the fool asks in vain.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
