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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 .

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
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Berkeley
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
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It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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There is no kingdom like the forests.
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The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but they are not for us.
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The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.
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Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
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The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners.
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