January 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM
January 10, 2026 at 10:43 AM
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
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January 10, 2026 at 7:43 AM
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
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« Un Mago de Terramar », c. 1989
by Oscar Chichoni (Argentine artist, born 1957)
Cover illustration for Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea", Minotauro, Argentina, 1989
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by Oscar Chichoni (Argentine artist, born 1957)
Cover illustration for Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea", Minotauro, Argentina, 1989
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January 10, 2026 at 6:14 AM
« Un Mago de Terramar », c. 1989
by Oscar Chichoni (Argentine artist, born 1957)
Cover illustration for Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea", Minotauro, Argentina, 1989
#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #OscarChichoni #UrsulaLeGuin #Earthsea #AWizardOfEarthsea
by Oscar Chichoni (Argentine artist, born 1957)
Cover illustration for Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Wizard of Earthsea", Minotauro, Argentina, 1989
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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.
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January 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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.
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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.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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.
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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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January 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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January 9, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:43 PM
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
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January 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
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January 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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January 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
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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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January 9, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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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January 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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January 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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January 8, 2026 at 10:43 PM
While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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January 8, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
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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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January 8, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
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January 8, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.
#UrsulaLeGuin #Ursula #UrsulaKLeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:43 PM
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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January 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM