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Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable.

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In war everybody is a prisoner.

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Sto leggendo, e in un paio di casi rileggendo, i libri del ciclo 'hainita' scritti da Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018). Una grande scrittrice.

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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would 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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In war everybody is a prisoner.

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

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Freedom is never very safe.

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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

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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 we part.

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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

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A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

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Freedom is never very safe.

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When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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We broke the world to make it whole...

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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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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We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

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#1831 flesh sterile alone labor foggily obeyed lift-off drive bluish From words on page 369 of  Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Hainish Novels...

The Haberdashery of Haiku: #1831 thehaberdasheryofhaikus.blogspot.com/2026/04/1831... #poem #bookhaiku #erasurepoetry #blackoutpoetry #ursulakleguin #cityofillusions #hainishcycle

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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

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A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

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You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

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