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Love Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

55 Love quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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A quote says love must be made like bread, fresh each time, not a stone that just sits. Other lines show that love needs compassion, can bring pain, and often clashes with power, urging us to work with time rather than against it. The writer also ties love to ideas of democracy and hope, saying she could not live without them.

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Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

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One must work with time and not against it.

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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.

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Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

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We read books to find out who we are.

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“Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing”

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Love is the true condition of human life.

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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.

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When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

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“I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring?”

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“All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I'll die, you'll die; how could we…

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Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

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What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

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“I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse…

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All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says.…

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“I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the…

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“I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty…

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“There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and…

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Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have…

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“In bed, they made love. Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all…

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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When…

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“A friend. What is a friend, in a world where any friend may be a lover at a new phase of the…

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“I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls…

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“Well," he said slowly, "sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends…

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“The reality of our life is in love, in solidarity,” said a tall, soft-eyed girl. “Love is the true condition of human…

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“How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I…

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“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people,…

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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be…

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“This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought,…

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“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people,…

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“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate…

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“They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in…

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“We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over…

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“For it seemed to me, and I think to him, that it was from that sexual tension between us, admitted now and…

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“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate…

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To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

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Not even need and love can defeat fate...

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