Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOnly pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhat is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHow do I know," she said at last, "that you are what you seem to be?"
"You don't," Said he. "I don't know what I seem, to you.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLight is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialChildren know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe light is the left hand of darkness
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWhat goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialExcess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialCompare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLiving, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe 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...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe machine conceals the machinations.