To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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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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Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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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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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
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Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else.
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Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
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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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I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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First sentences are doors to worlds.
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
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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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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
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