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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
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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The word must be heard in silence there must be darkness to see the stars.
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
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We sleep researchers like cats, you know they sleep a lot!
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It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
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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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It is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself
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