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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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Amazon Content Contentment Culture Every Book Made Purchase Vote
As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
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Class Done Human Nation Reality Series Women
The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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Beautiful Bright Dark Druel Earth Existence Terrible
I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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Certainty Earn Happiness Happy Keep Often Reason Thing
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Country Dark Earth Root
Every group we belong to – by gender, sex, race, religion, age – is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.
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Age Future Gender Group Humanity Immense Next People Race Religion Surrounded World
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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Again Book Differently Fifteen Fifty Raed Seem Something Tell Understand
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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God No Proven Religion
Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Another Kind Music Think Way
The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive.
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Coexist Each Found Hope Imperative Longer Myth Other Reconcile Silence Society
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
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Plot Story Tell
The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Above Abyss Always Dance Hollow Place Terrible
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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End Good Journey Matters Towards
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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Book Children Good Perfectly Well Real True Unicorn
There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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Corporation Disinformation Information Only
I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
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Blow Field Grass Know Like Master Part Purpose Thread

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars.

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