# Quote — Arthur C. Clarke, The City And The Stars

> He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.

- Author: [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md)
- Book: [The City And The Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars.md)
- Page: 187
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#The_City_and_the_Stars_(1956)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars/he-had-discharged

## More from this book

> If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars/if-the-artist.md)

Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md)

> It is not my duty as an historian to predict the future, only to observe and interpret the past. But its lesson is clear enough; we have lived too long out of contact with reality, and now the time has come to rebuild our lives.

p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars/it-is-not.md)

Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md)

> Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time—but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.

p. 44 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-city-and-the-stars/khedron-was-content.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md)