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URSULA K. LE GUINThis is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died.
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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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