Shadow Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

12 Shadow quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Le Guin often used darkness to question what we take for granted, and this dozen quotes give a quick yet resonant look at how the unseen shapes societies and selves.

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The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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“That is between me and my shadow.”

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

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“In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was…

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What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship…

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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the…

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It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold,…

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Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while.…

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“Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a…

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And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with…

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