The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINFreedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
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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 do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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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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There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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You can go home again…so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
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But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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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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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.
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A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.
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