Ursula K. Le Guin said this quote

“ There was something lacking – in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not strong enough to take what was so generously offered. He felt himself dry and arid, like a desert plant, in this beautiful oasis. Life on Anarres had sealed him, closed off his soul; the waters of life welled all around him, and yet he could not drink. ”

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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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I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else, you must have another goal, then you walk a different road.

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