There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd 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.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIn war everybody is a prisoner.
@roblarocque.bsky.social“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDistrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI 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.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialDo you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAnd I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
@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.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.socialA machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe king was pregnant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?
@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.socialWhen we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.
@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.socialCompare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.