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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. It's unwise, though, to think you know how it's going to go, or how it's going to end. That's to be known only when it's over.And even when it's over, even when it's somebody else's life, somebody who lived a hundred years ago, whose story I've heard told time and again, while I'm hearing it I hope and fear as if I didn't know how it would end; and so I live the story and it lives in me. That's as good a way as I know to outwit death. Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    ... anlatılacak hikaye ne kadar çoksa hakikat de o kadar çoktu.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    ... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    With eye and hand and breath and will.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    A bully doesn't answer you; he may hear but pays no heed; he talks on as if you were of no account, and it gives him the advantage always at the start, though not always
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    ...talk is an art and a pleasure, not a matter of mere use and need.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    The habit of silence is lead on the tongue.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.
    book-quotemourningsolitude

  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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  12. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
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