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Book: Four Ways to Forgiveness
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. There are two kinds of time,local and historical.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
There's one way to make a baby. If you know another, you can do it with somebody else!
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
You can't change anything from outside it. Standing apart, looking down, taking the overview, you see the pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back into it. He spoke from his marrow. It made what he said a solemn compliment, which she accepted gratefully...
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
Hold fast to the one noble thing.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
I am sorry, I am very sorry to ask you to lie," he said, so earnestly that I wondered if it hurt him to lie. That made him seem more like a god than a human being. If it hurt to lie, how could you stay alive?
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
You can't change anything from the outside in. Standing apart, looking down, talking the overview, you see pattern. What's wrong, what's missing. You want to fix it. But you can't patch it. You have to be in it, weaving it. You have to be part of the weaving."
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war." She stopped reading, to rest her eyes and because she was trying to train herself to read slowly. "There has never been a war." In her mind the words stood clear and bright, surrounded by and sinking into an infinite, dark, soft incredulity. What would that world be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality. But my people, she thought, know only how to deny. Born in the dark shadow of power misused, we set peace outside our world, a guiding and unattainable light. All we know to do is fight. Any peace one of us can make in our life is only a denial that the war is going on, a shadow of the shadow, a doubled unbelief. So as the cloud-shadows swept over the marshes and the page of the book open on her lap, she sighed and closed her eyes. thinking, "I am a liar." Then she opened her eyes and read more about the other worlds, the far realities.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.
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Ursula K. Le Guin _ Four Ways to Forgiveness
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free.
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