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

She never saw why something could not be. Another reason he loved her.

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

You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.

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

In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

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

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 · 7h

Falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.

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

Rules are made to be broken. Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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

We broke the world to make it whole...

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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

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

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 · 19h

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 · 21h

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

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

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.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Where my love is going There will I go. Where his boat is rowing I will row. We will laugh together, Together we will cry. If he lives I will live, If he dies I die. Where my love is going There will I go. Where his boat is rowing I will row.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 03/10/2026

And after a while he saw at the faint outermost edge of the light a shadow that came towards him over the sand. At first it was shapeless, but as it drew nearer it took on the look of a man.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 03/10/2026

What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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 · 03/10/2026

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 · 03/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

She saw a light like a star in darkness, underground, long ago, and his face in the light.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But we, insofar as we have power over the world and over one another, we must learn to do what the leaf and the whale and the wind do of their own nature. We must learn to keep the balance.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All or nothing, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And no one knows how many of the dolphins that leap in the waters of the Inmost Sea were men once, wise men, who forgot their wisdom and their name in the joy of the restless sea.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.

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