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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “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.”
    ― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore
    tags: balance, darkness
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    Gene Wolfe
    “When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
    tags: gifts, merit, payment
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    Marge Piercy
    “i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”
    ― Marge Piercy
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Telling
    tags: belief, knowledge
    337 likes

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    Gene Wolfe
    “You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.”
    ― Gene Wolfe
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    Gene Wolfe
    “Time turns our lies into truths.”
    ― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw
    tags: lies, time, truth
    15 likes

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    Daphne Gottlieb
    “the frightening truth about desire

    it's on but
    i don't know
    whether i want
    to be
    her, fuck her
    or borrow
    her clothes.”
    ― Daphne Gottlieb
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “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.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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    Maggie Stiefvater
    “If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.”
    ― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
    tags: deep-thoughts, humans, love, maggie-stiefvater, nature, the-raven-boys, trees
    1457 likes

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    Richard Powers
    “There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
    tags: love, trees
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    Richard Powers
    “What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Richard Powers
    “You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Richard Powers
    “Life has a way of talking to the future. It’s called memory. It’s called genes.”
    ― Richard Powers, The Overstory
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: ambiguity, certainty, humility, knowledge, policy
    969 likes

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters
    tags: dreams, forest, mind
    201 likes



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