The light is the left hand of darkness
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We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.
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Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
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And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
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I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
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People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
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Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
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The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
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How do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
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The machine conceals the machinations.
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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
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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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Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
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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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He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
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The king was pregnant.
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The Haberdashery of Haiku: #1819 thehaberdasheryofhaikus.blogspot.com/2026/04/1819... #poem #bookhaiku #blackoutpoetry #erasurepoetry #ursulakleguin #hainishcycle #hain #planetofexile
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
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Ursula K.Le Guin en podcast !
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