We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom.
URSULA K. LE GUINMy tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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Life–evolution–the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy–existence itself–is essentially change.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
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To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
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Hope is a slow business.
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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music.
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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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There is no information about corporations. There is only disinformation.
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Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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What is life without incompatible realities?
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I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
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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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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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