Progress means nothing to presence.
("The Left Hand of Darkness")
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.Ursula K. Le Guin
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
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Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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