Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe 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.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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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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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows.
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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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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings.
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Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other–outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.
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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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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
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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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To hear, one must be silent.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
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The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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