Quotes

• "Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• "But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass." - JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• "I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil." - JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish." - JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
• "For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing." - Ursula K LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea
• "People have forgotten this truth," the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose. - Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry, The Little Prince
• 'One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.
• As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
• You see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat...
• He aqu� mi secreto. Es muy simple: no se ve bien sino con el coraz�n. Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos.
• What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince. "You must be very patient," replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me--like that--in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day . . ."
• Desvar�o laborioso y empobrecedor el de componer vastos libros; el de explayar en quinientas p�ginas una idea cuya perfecta exposici�n oral cabe en pocos minutos. Mejor procedimiento es simular que esos libros ya existen y ofrecer un resumen, un comentario. - Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
• Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer. En el abarrotado mundo de Funes no hab�a sino detalles, casi inmediatos. - Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones
• To light a candle is to cast a shadow... - Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
• For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after. - Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
• You thought, as a boy, 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. . . . - Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
• 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.
• When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?' Ogion went on a half mile or so, and said at last, 'To hear, one must be silent.

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