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Quotes from A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin

1929–2018 United States

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

He had almost yielded, but not quite. He had not consented. It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

It is light that defeats the dark.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

“Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go”

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

To hear, one must be silent.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

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