Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe 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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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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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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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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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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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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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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