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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
He said after a little while, ‘I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.’ ‘That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another man. In our shame is our glory. Only our spirit, which is capable of evil, is capable of overcoming it.
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery.
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.