To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.
@actusf.bsky.socialSense of Wonder, aujourd'hui on parle du roman Les Dépossédés d'Ursula K.Le Guin (1974) !
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLiving, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIf one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHaving intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFor if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThis is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI was in too much haste, and now have no time left.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialNot even need and love can defeat fate...
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.