The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNo man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
@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.
@daryldeckow.hunni.space.ap.brid.gyEuractiv: La UE está insatisfecha con el ritmo de las reformas en Ucrania. #Ursula von der Leyen enfatizó que la liberación de la ayuda financiera restante para Ucrania (más de 20.000 millones de euros a través del programa "#Ukraine Facility
@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.