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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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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While we read a novel, we are insane-bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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* A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), first edition, Parnassus Press, Berkeley, California, 1968
Cover art by Ruth Robbins

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

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Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]

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Like all walls it was ambiguous, two faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side you were on.

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A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

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I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

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