Sylvia Engdahl Quotes

#1. Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond? - Georyn

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#2. People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. - Elana

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#3. It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

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#4. Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.

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#5. If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.

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#6. But as long as he kept on caring, nothing could touch the freedom of his inner thoughts.

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#7. But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.

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#8. It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you

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#9. It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.

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#10. There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.

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#11. What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?

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#12. The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. - Elana's father

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