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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1h

There is no kingdom like the forests.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 3h

Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by human beings.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 5h

“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 7h

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 9h

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 11h

There's a great maze of tunnels, a Labyrinth. It's like a great dark city, under the hill. Full of gold, and the swords of old heroes, and old crowns, and bones, and years, and silence.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13h

Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13h

As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy’s arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15h

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17h

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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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19h

She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 21h

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23h

I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

She looked where he was looking, into the dim gulf of air above the western sea. “If she comes, she'll come from there,” he said. “And if she doesn't come, she is there.” She nodded. “I know.” Her eyes were filled with tears.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

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.