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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To oppose something is to maintain it.
    They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
    tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: description, language, power-of-words, words
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: childhood, growing-up, innocence
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: action, information, sleep
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: identity, self-image, sense-of-self, stories, storytelling
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Robin Hobb
    “It's too late to apologize for I have already forgiven you." -FitzChivalry Farseer”
    ― Robin Hobb
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    Robin Hobb
    “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
    tags: truth
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    Robin Hobb
    “Don’t do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: love
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
    tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: epistemology, future, philosophy
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    Tom Waits
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Tom Waits
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    Brandon Sanderson
    “The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it?
    It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.    ”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Dante Alighieri
    “Through me you pass into the city of woe:
    Through me you pass into eternal pain:
    Through me among the people lost for aye.
    Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
    To rear me was the task of power divine,
    Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
    Before me things create were none, save things
    Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
    All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
    tags: inferno
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    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice
    tags: love, mr-darcy
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    Osho
    “I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.”
    ― Osho
    tags: being, happiness, life, nature, sad
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Light is the left hand of darkness
    and darkness the right hand of light.
    Two are one, life and death, lying
    together like lovers in kemmer,
    like hands joined together,
    like the end and the way.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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    James Baldwin
    “She sensed that what her aunt spoke of as love was something else—a bribe, a threat, an indecent will to power. She knew that the kind of imprisonment that love might impose was also, mysteriously, a freedom for the soul and spirit, was water in the dry place, and had nothing to do with the prisons, churches, laws, rewards, and punishments, that so positively cluttered the landscape of her aunt’s mind.”
    ― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
    tags: love
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