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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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What is life without incompatible realities?
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Incompatible Life Realities Without
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
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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Darkness Forever Last Star
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
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Capitalism Die Growth Imperative Interdependence Limit Odd Radical Stand
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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Change Crush Idea Ignore Refuse Suppressing Think
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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All Before Know Need Place Rare
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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Different Fiction Good Kind Name Science Think Write
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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Find never One Put Wall Way Wost
The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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Between Book Cover Reader Sall Understand Universe
The light is the left hand of darkness.
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Darkness Hanf Left Light
A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Repair Transdended Wrong
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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Content Evil Hard Hold Soul Very
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Country Dark Earth Root
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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Impronenish Made Possible Reality Relationship Thing
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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Back Forgotten Give Light Much World
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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Describe Flow Moment Next One River Try Use

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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