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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope is a slow business.
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
To hear, one must be silent.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
