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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a757a79 | being picked on, was very painful, but it made me a better person. It instilled in me a lifelong hatred for bullies and sympathy for their victims. Some of the most satisfying work I did as a prosecutor, in fact, was putting bullies of all kinds in jail, freeing good people from their tyranny. After my experience in college, I was never going to surrender to the group again simply because it was easy. And I was going to make sure my life ha.. | James Comey | ||
| 6a6e788 | Who read by night above the Rhine the cloudscript of the drifting mists? It was the Steppenwolf. And who over the ruins of his life pursued its fleeting, fluttering significance, while he suffered its seeming meaninglessness and lived its seeming madness, and who hoped in secret at the last turn of the labyrinth of Chaos for revelation and God's presence? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| a391d34 | Initially all he dreamed and wished for, eventually it became his bitter lot. Those who live for power are destroyed by power, those who live for money by money; service is the ruin of the servile, pleasure the ruin of the pleasure-seeker. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| ebada1b | O, how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired was about to happen, that a veil would drop from i.. | Peter Matthiessen | ||
| 7381e97 | Look," he said, "I am superior to you only in one point: I'm awake, whereas you are only half awake, or completely asleep sometimes. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable force, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them. For you to learn that about yourself is the potential reason for your having met me." | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 760c387 | You could observe people's folly, you could laugh at them or feel sorry for them, but you had to let them go their own way. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 222c2a6 | Siddhartha listened. He was now nothing but a listener, completely concentrated on listening, completely empty, he felt, that he had now finished learning to listen. Often before, he had heard all this, these many voices in the river, today it sounded new. Already, he could no longer tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping ones, not the ones of children from those of men, they all belonged together, the lamentation o.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fa45259 | because I loved them both and wanted to make them my own, they became to me a kind of dream figure, which looks like both of them and is neither. That figure belongs to me, but it no longer has life. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6414f5e | If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born | uniqueness uniqueness-of-individual uniqueness-quotes | Hermann Hesse | |
| 6bdc062 | What is the sense of giving a boundary to all... of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 161c1f6 | And the mills of capitalism provide them. Supply meets demand. Fantasy becomes a commodity, an industry. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivialises. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 33d26fd | And not only narrativity but the quality of the writing is of the first importance to me. Rightly or not, I believe a dull, inept style signals poverty or incompleteness of thought. I see the accuracy, scope, and quality of Darwin's intellect directly expressed in the clarity, strength, and vitality of his writing -- the beauty of it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e15d5e8 | Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: the refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can lick them, join them. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to loose hold of everything else. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 36efdd7 | Farkli guneslerin isiklari farklidir, ama tek bir karanlik vardir. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2be36e1 | You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2004a4b | We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4be4aea | They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0be417a | What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5661aa5 | Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text--compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping--what is this, electroshock torture? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7d499b5 | You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5f5f8db | The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn't the end of a battle but the beginning of a life. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fd71774 | There was something lacking - in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not strong enough to take what was so generously offered. He felt himself dry and arid, like a desert plant, in this beautiful oasis. Life on Anarres had sealed him, closed off his soul; the waters of life welled all around him, and yet he could not drink. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f44d3f0 | Between a man and a woman there is what they want there to be between them... each, and both. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f289958 | So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social and sexual intercourse, none of these appeared to him as lacks, but as freedom. He was the free man: he could do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it for as long as he wanted to do it. And he did. He worked. He work/played. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3f2729d | He stopped and after a while went on. 'Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices muct be made. When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt to the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, blinds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when y.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8187779 | The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused. | sex-appeal | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4003bdb | To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. | god religion science-fiction spirituality | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| b744dec | he thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e1fd014 | Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9367c12 | The question was where to start. Where to build up a solid foundation of knowledge on which you could balance ideas. It wasn't exactly a modest ambition. But what I had learned from Natalie was that you could have a very immodest ambition if you went after it methodically. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9e2d3df | Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a fury in a cage. He had no right to tease them. They knew no relation but possession. They were possessed. | patriarchy women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 85be480 | What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. 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, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5b86f74 | Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction. Every readable novel can give true pleasure. Every novel read by choice is read because it gives true pleasure. Literature consists of many genres, including mystery, science fiction, fantasy, naturalism, realism, magical realism, graphic, erotic, e.. | genre literature | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 2487771 | So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -Hawk | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c5e4334 | Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?" -- | mothers women | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a8fb885 | I am sorry, I am very sorry to ask you to lie," he said, so earnestly that I wondered if it hurt him to lie. That made him seem more like a god than a human being. If it hurt to lie, how could you stay alive?" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 77b175b | You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f383ff3 | The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed? | string-theory | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 47cf814 | He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another person as object. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f21f919 | I came to the center of the maze following him. Now I must find my way back out alone. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b092604 | The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a85a267 | Ekhe geia, phtokhe mou, eupiste anoete! Tha peis ten aletheia kai e aletheia tha se eleutherosei. Alla mporei kai okhi, exartatai apo ten periptose. Pegaine monos, agapete mou elithie- einai o kaluteros tropos gia na prokhoreseis. Tha mou leipsoun ta oneira sou. Ekhe geia, ekhe geia. Ta psaria kai oi episkeptes arkhizoun na bromane meta apo treis meres. Ekhe geia! | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4d7ec96 | Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen." | taoism | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a0ee4d7 | My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war. | peace war | Ursula K. Le Guin |