The presence of the trees was very strong…The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.
URSULA K. LE GUINIt is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
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I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
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Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.
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Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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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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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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What good is music? None … and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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The light is the left hand of darkness.
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