Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
URSULA K. LE GUINLight 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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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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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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To see that your life is a story while you’re in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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