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“And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won, but naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole. A man, who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life, therefore, is lived for life’s sake, and never in the service of ruin or pain or hatred or the dark.”

“As a boy, Ogion, like all boys, had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art magic whatever shape one liked — man or beast, tree or cloud, and so to play at a thousand beings. But as a wizard, he had learned the price of the game, which is the peril of losing oneself, playing away the truth. The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril.”

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