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" Light is a power. A great power, by which we exist, but which exists beyond our needs, in itself. Sunlight and starlight are time, and time is light. In the sunlight, in the days and years, life is. In a dark place life may call upon the light, naming it. But usually when you see a wizard name or call upon some thing, some object to appear, that is not the same, he calls upon no power greater than himself, and what appears is an illusion only. To summon a thing that is not there at all, to call it by speaking its true name, that is a great mastery, not lightly used. Not for mere hunger’s sake. Yarrow, your little dragon has stolen a cake. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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" You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark, life and death, good and evil. And you were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin? You summoned a spirit from the dead, but with it came one of the Powers of unlife. Uncalled it came from a place where there are no names. Evil, it wills to work evil through you. The power you had to call it gives it power over you: you are connected. It is the shadow of your arrogance, the shadow of your ignorance, the shadow you cast. Has a shadow a name? "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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" По-късно, когато Гед размишляваше за тази нощ, стана му ясно, че ако никой не го бе докоснал, докато лежеше бездиханен, ако никой не го бе повикал по някакъв начин, той щеше да си отиде завинаги. Спаси го единствено нямата, инстинктивна мъдрост на звяра, който ближеше ранения си другар, за да го успокои. Но в тази мъдрост Гед видя нещо сродно със собствената си сила, нещо дълбоко колкото самото магьосничество. От този момент той повярва, че мъдър е онзи, който никога не се отделя от останалите живи същества, говорящи или не. След това дълги години се стремеше да научи онова, което може да се научи в мълчание от очите на животните, от полета на птиците, от бавното полюшване на клоните. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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" And he began to see the truth, that [he] 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. "
― Ursula K. Le Guin , A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)