The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
URSULA K. LE GUINAnd, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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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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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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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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Hope is a slow business.
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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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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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