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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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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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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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