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 GUINOur roots are in the dark; the earth is our country.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them.
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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 need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people .
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.
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I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own.
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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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I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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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–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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