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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
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We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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Hope is a slow business.
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Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy?
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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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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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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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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The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
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Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.
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