It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialIt is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe machine conceals the machinations.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialAs often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves the stars and the waves of the sea and couples the animals in the fields in spring, the power of passion, the light of the evening star.
@szymonbrycki.bsky.socialI'm on page 500 of #IronFlame by #RebeccaYarros - closer to the end of book than the beginning.
After that, I'm planning on reading some #UrsulaKLeGuin UwU
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe story is not in the plot but in the telling.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialPast events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHappiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYou fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.
@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.socialI never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialHe had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialMy soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThere are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo oppose something is to maintain it.