All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

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I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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To hear, one must be silent.

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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

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