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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.

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December 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?

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December 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

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December 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

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December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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You have nothing. You posses nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

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December 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

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December 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies...

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December 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

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December 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.

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December 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the#UrsulaLeGuinU#UrsulaG#UrsulaKLeGuinrsulaKLeGuin
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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December 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

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December 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

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December 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

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December 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

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December 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.

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December 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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December 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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To oppose something is to maintain it.

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December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Yes. 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.

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December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

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December 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

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December 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

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December 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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💙📚 #BookSky #DecemberCompletions
4 books finished in December.
Mix of genres and authors
#UrsulaKLeGuin #JaimeHernandez #EdgarRiceBurroughs #FredFordham
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Book cover. Earthsea, The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin (Fantasy / Earthsea #6) Cover shows a boat sailing on an ocean (4.0 stars) Book cover. Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Caspak #3 / Fantasy Adventure) Cover shows creatures with wings flying over prehistoric forest, one armed with a sword, the other holding a person in its arms (3.0 stars) Book cover. Love and Rockets, The Death of Speedy by Jaime Hernandez (Graphic novel) Cover shows a street scene, a Hispanic man and woman standing on the street and 4 others outside a building, looking on. (4.5 stars) Book cover. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham (Classic / Graphic novel) Sky blue cover with a futuristic cityscape. (3.5 stars)
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM