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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 77e479e | But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely! | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c7ba20b | Take care, Tenar," he said." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c85a495 | Farei meu relatorio como se contasse uma historia, pois quando crianca aprendi, em meu planeta natal, que a Verdade e uma questao de imaginacao. O fato mais concreto pode fraquejar ou triunfar no estilo da narrativa: como a joia organica singular de nossos mares, cujo brilho aumenta quando determinada mulher a usa e, usada por outra, torna-se opaca e perde o valor. Fatos nao sao mais solidos, coerentes, perfeitos e reais do que perolas. Mas.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d9000e3 | Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 06b185f | Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice--the power of change, the essential function of life. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f227e84 | Bence bugun cogu insan, dile getirmeseler bile, tevazuu bir erdem olarak goruyor ve hayatinda tevazua yer veriyor. Gunluk sohbetleri, marangozlarin birlikte calisirken, sekreterlerin molalarda konusurken, birlikte icen veya yemek yiyen insanlarin ilgi konulari ve bildikleri uzerine gundelik konusmalarini dusunuyorum ve bu tur durumlarda tevazuun olcut sayildigi fikrindeyim. Arabami nasil ucuza kapattim, suraya ne seyahat yaptim, muthis seks.. | ursula-leguin wild-girls | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 028e74d | To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. -- CHUANG TSE : XXIII | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 864921f | Pero tan inevitablemente como el futuro se convierte en pasado, el pasado se convierte en futuro. Renegar del pasado no es triunfar. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 99dd266 | One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed. | life serenity | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| b377617 | Little children are stoical. They cry over bumps, but they take the big things as they come, they don't whine like so many adults. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e3f867a | I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d3914fe | Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 46b4cdb | Dunya hep yenidir, kokleri ne kadar eski de olsa. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 636b4b8 | And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was unendurable. It was not shame that stopped him, but fear, the same fear. He knew now why this tranquil life in sea and sunlight on the rafts seemed to him like an after-life or a dream, unreal. It was because he knew in his heart that reality was empty: without life or warmth or color or sound: without meaning. There were no heig.. | ennui | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fcc4d9d | Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. | death life | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 650b481 | The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 285ff25 | We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater than the distance that's already between us, the distance of our sex, the differences of our being, our minds; that gap, that abyss which we bridge with a look, with a touch, with a .. | love time | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1131611 | They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d85e190 | A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. | carpe-diem change freedom inspirational-attitude | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 77e13e2 | Bana gorulmeye deger bir sey gostermemi soylemistin. Ben de sana, seni gosterdim. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6510ee3 | E bom ter um objetivo nas jornadas que empreendemos; mas, no fim das contas, o que importa e a jornada em si. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ca05b09 | I stood benumbed. The man was like an electric shock--nothing to hold on to and you don't know what hit you. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c200505 | He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d8aa93d | They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 66632b0 | patience with him either, always at him to hurry up and | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9217fad | I could forget everything I'd lost, because I'd never had it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b6ca15d | Incommunicable. Language used for communication with individual-persons will not contain other forms of relationship. Jor Jor." The right hand, a great, greenish, flipperlike extremity, came forward in a slow and perhaps tentative fashion. "Tiua'k Ennbe Ennbe." Orr shook hands with it. It stood immobile, apparently regarding him, though no eyes were visible inside the dark-tinted, vapor-filled headpiece. If it was a headpiece. Was there in .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| bbe3cae | The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" "Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical. You see, we have neither prey nor enemy, on Anarres. We have only one another. There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 0dce0fb | Why hadn't she been a detective instead of a goddamn stupid third-class civil rights lawyer? She hated the law. It took an aggressive, assertive personality. She didn't have it. She had a sneaky, sly, shy, squamous personality. She had French diseases of the soul. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4a2839b | She had a pocket recorder and was taking all this down: every five seconds, as the law required, the thing went teep. "Will you describe the therapy you're employing please, teep and explain the role this device plays in it? Don't tell me how it teep works, that's in your report, but what it does. Teep for instance, how does its use differ from the Elektroson or the trancap?" | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 85ef418 | People had huddled back into the old core of the city; and once the suburbs had been looted, they burned. Like Moscow in 1812, acts of God or vandalism: they were no longer wanted, and they burned. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7e34cc6 | It's a queer business, making oneself blind. | choice | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1854030 | With eye and hand and breath and will. | undoing | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d7c7049 | privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. | power responsibility | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8eb341a | I can't decide which color I am. I mean, my father was a black, a real black--oh, he had some white blood, but he was a black--and my mother was a white, and I'm neither one. See, my father really hated my mother because she was white. But he also loved her. But I think she loved his being black much more than she loved him. Well, where does that leave me? I never have figured out." "Brown," he said gently, standing behind her chair. "Shit .. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8999a81 | Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. All of u.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| cf43af0 | You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6978cdd | It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f77f7a0 | Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words! | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 1af3210 | I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I didn't put it that way to him. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5d276b5 | She told Everra that he had given her and Sallo the soul's hunger for books and thoughts, and must not deprive them now that Sallo was starving among the inanities of the silk rooms and she among the pomposities of merchants and the illiteracy of politicians. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a469bd6 | The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e270c93 | You see, I don't write the way I was trained to write at the conservatory. I write dysfunctional music. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 15d024c | I don't know. Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It IS and we ARE. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. | Ursula K. Le Guin |