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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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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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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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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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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
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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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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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