We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
URSULA K. LE GUINLife goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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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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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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