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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother.
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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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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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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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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
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That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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