We read books to find out who we are.
URSULA K. LE GUINThose who build walls are their own prisoners.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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 light is the left hand of darkness.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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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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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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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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To hear, one must be silent.
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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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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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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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