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But it also strikes me that the idea of ‘conservatism’ is in itself false, because nothing can be conserved, as such – time moves in one direction only, I mean.
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“But as the day passed, his impatience turned from a fear to a kind of glad fierceness. At least he sought this danger of his own will; and the nearer he came to it the more sure he was that, for this time at least, for this hour perhaps before his death, he was free.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“No, I don't understand him, but he is worth listening to.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
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