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“There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.”
“Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?”
“He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynef...”
“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for man...”
“He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own presence in the world, and sought gods who might be more powerful than himself...”
