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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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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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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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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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