When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
URSULA K. LE GUINWe controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. …But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it… By using words well they strengthen their souls.
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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.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
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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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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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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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Success is somebody else’s failure.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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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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Hope is a slow business.
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Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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