Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
URSULA K. LE GUINLife goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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 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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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
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You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.
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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.
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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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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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