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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
