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

But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2h

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 4h

I was dying of thirst when you gave me water, yet it was not the water alone that saved me. It was the strength of the hands that gave it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 6h

A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 8h

You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10h

Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12h

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.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14h

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 18h

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

The shadow dared not follow him into a dragon’s jaws.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22h

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Clouds in the west laid great shivering mirages on the plain, the shadows of dreams of lakes gone dry ten million years ago.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We broke the world to make it whole...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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 · 28/09/2026

The sea spoke forever, but its language was foreign to her. She did not understand.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only what is mortal bears life. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But when a direction is chosen freely and followed wholeheartedly, it may seem that all things further the going.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Then Ged pitied her. She was like a white deer caged, like a white bird wing-clipped, like a silver ring in an old man's finger.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And he would watch the snow falling, thin and ceaseless, on the empty lands below the window, and feel the dull cold grow within him, till it seemed no feeling was left to him except a kind of weariness.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He knew once more, at last, after this long, bitter, wasted time, who he was and where he was. But where he must go in the years to come, that he could not see; and he feared to see it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the “right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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