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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Build Own Prisoner Wall
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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Function Galaxy Machine Purpose Thing Universe Useful
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Archive Children Compassion Great Hope Imagination Perception Scientist
Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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Civilize Man Master Other Outside Rest Self Subservient Underneath
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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Aspect Civilization Denied Fear Form Institutionalize Know Male Misogyny Shape
f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.
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Begin Feminine Morality Road Somewhere Survival Yoke
To hear, one must be silent.
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Hear Must One Silent
We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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Adapt Appetite Control Destroy Fast Ourselves Violence World
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Destroy Goes Itself Long Too Unchanged
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
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Care Mean Person Say Winter Word
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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Evil Hard Hole Soul Take Unconsisting
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
When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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Always Change Consciousness Genuine Life Message Myth Rise
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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Fantasy Height Realistic Reality Surrealistic Traditional
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
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

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

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