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.
URSULA K. LE GUINI can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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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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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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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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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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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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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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We read books to find out who we are.
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