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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 Guin

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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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 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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Chance Come Evade Fulfill Home Joy May Pleasure Suffer
What is life without incompatible realities?
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Incompatible Life Realities Without
We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Alone Dark Each Hand Hold Out Sure
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Art Being Often Resistance Change Word
The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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Moment Nothing Remark River Same Step Twice
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Candle Cast Light Shadow

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