But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialBut it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTime is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDistrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe machine conceals the machinations.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf civilization has an opposite, it is war.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAs often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialGradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNo, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFreedom is never very safe.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThis was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.