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„But you are young. You stand on the borders of possibility, in the shadowland, in the realm of the dream, and you hear the voice saying come. As I did once. But I am old, I have made my choices, I have done what I must do. I stand in daylight facing my own death. And I know that there is only one power worth having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept. Not to have, but to give.“

There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty.
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I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.

You thought that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And 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.

„Somebody, your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour – and in the oddest places! – for the lack of it."

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? And if you think of them as dirty, then they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing, you will be despising your flesh and his. But you can make your time together anything but dirty, you can give each other something which will make both of you better forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe

„But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.“

I had loved her once and I made myself believe it. But I wonder if I had. I was thinking, no doubt, of our nights in bed, of the peculiar innocence and confidence, which will never come again, which had made those nights so delightful, so unrelated to past, present, or anything to come