If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

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To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.

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Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

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Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.

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To hear, one must be silent.

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Freedom is never very safe.

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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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I 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.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

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And 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

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testing every step
before I take it
my shadow

#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 Nov 8, 2023

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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

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You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,

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My 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.

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To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

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