I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.


Ursula K. LeGuin

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Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of wh...
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what come...
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is...
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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve...
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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their ...
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They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go t...
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Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult g...
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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Se...
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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they g...
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My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and go...
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The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only...
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There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex ...
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Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry."

"Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "the...
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Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful functio...
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They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the
darkness, and they do not come back. The place they...
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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that w...
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean w...
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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
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Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...
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The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it s...
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
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When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...
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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
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Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgot...
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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we...
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful...
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...
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Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?
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My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
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... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dange...
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Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Eith...
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We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
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It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ...
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While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't the...
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An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...
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I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
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The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...
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What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
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A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...
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To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
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Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life...
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We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore...
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In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge ...
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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; the...
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In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the ins...
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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It ...
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His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen...
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On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...
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There must be darkness to see the stars.
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The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
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The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
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