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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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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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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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Age Around Choose Else Everybody Joint Life Make Rest Virtue Whether
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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