Light 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.

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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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And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

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To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

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Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.

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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

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Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

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Light 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.

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Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

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That is between me and my shadow.

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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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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

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The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?

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Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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Do you know how to read?'
'No. It is one of the black arts.'
He nodded. 'But a useful one,' he said.

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Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.

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sneaking away
when I'm not looking
the hours

#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of this screenplay adaptation of #UrsulaLeGuin 's THE TOMBS OF ATUAN (www.AuthorFreeman.com/atuan).

Today’s haiku was originally posted on Jan 22, 2024

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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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Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.

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Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

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