“To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Sparrowhawk)
“There must be candles.”
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