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One Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping…
- You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given…
- Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about…
- True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery…
- To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful,…
- To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she…
- In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.
- When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
- A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the…
- It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could…
- What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we…
- Age and illness made one a dualist
- The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling…
- Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything…
- You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
- The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
- The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very…
- 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…
- Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given,…
- ...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of…
- What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
- 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…
- I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after…
- But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle