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“Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen.
“Truth is a matter of the imagination.
A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.
As a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and company Ursula K.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) foi uma escritora americana cujos trabalhos abrangem ficção científica, fantasia, ficção juvenil e ensaios. Nascida em Berkeley, Califórnia, Le Guin é amplamente considerada uma das maiores escritoras de ficção especulativa de todos os tempos. Ela ganhou inúmeros prêmios por suas obras, incluindo múltiplos Prêmios Hugo e Nebula. Seus livros mais famosos incluem "O
Nome do Mundo" (1968), "Os
Despossuídos" (1974) e "A
Mão Esquerda da Escuridão" (1969). Le Guin era conhecida por sua abordagem reflexiva e humanista à ficção científica, usando-a para explorar temas como anarquismo, ecologia e gênero. Ela faleceu em Portland, Oregon.