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Book: The Lathe of Heaven
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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. But
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    What will the creature made all of sea-drift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking? His
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got …
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience. "Yet
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  9. 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. When"
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  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.
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  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.
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  12. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    It may remain for us to learn… that our task is only beginning, and that there will never be given to us even the ghost of any help, save the help of unutterable and unthinkable Time. We may have to learn that the infinite whirl of death and birth, out of which we cannot escape, is of our own creation, of our own seeking;--that the forces integrating worlds are the errors of the Past;--that the eternal sorrow is but the eternal hunger of insatiable desire;--and that the burnt-out suns are rekindled only by the inextinguishable passions of vanished lives.
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