began see truth, Ged lost won but, naming shadow death name, made whol — Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard Earthsea

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He began to see the truth, that 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. In the Creation of Ea, which is the oldest song, it is said, 'Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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Related Topics: adulthood, coming-of-age, death, evil, fear, good-, evil, life, manhood, self-knowledge

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