The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
URSULA K. LE GUINAnd though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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Hope is a slow business.
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as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.
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Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice.
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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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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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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable.
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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