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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  4. Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
  5. There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. – Thomas Pynchon
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  8. I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. – Ursula K Le Guin
  9. A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  13. You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it. – John Green
  14. Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability. – Elizabeth George
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  19. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  21. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
  22. You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. – Ursula K Le Guin
  23. I know perfectly well he’s a god, too. But what I think is he’ll be much godlier after he’s dead. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  28. The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. – Ursula K Le Guin
  29. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  31. Not even need and love can defeat fate… – Ursula K Le Guin
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  34. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. – Ursula K Le Guin
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  36. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. The premise is: everybody’s like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don’t think like me don’t matter. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. – Ursula K Le Guin
  40. The strength of Shevek’s personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. – Ursula K Le Guin

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