You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose…
URSULA K. LE GUINLove doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself.
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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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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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