The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it’s not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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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 think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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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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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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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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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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