I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
URSULA K. LE GUINI believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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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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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
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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.
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Hope is a slow business.
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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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I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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A panda walks into a tea room and ordered a salad and ate it. Then it pulled out a pistol, shot the man in the next table dead, and walked out.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
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